A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of Fen.
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