Strange Talk

Amiehas always heard things other people can’t. Her rickety old house is alive withvoices: smug comments from the fridge, needy cries from the smoke alarm,romantic overtures from the toaster. Then there’s Door, Amie’s closest friend,whose voice has abruptly gone quiet.Whenher nephew Jay comes to stay unexpectedly, Amie is forced to let the outsideworld into the house. As she helps Jay to navigate his sexuality andestrangement from his parents, with backup from her eccentric ‘found family’ ofappliances, she begins to acknowledge her own secret longings. But does theobject of her desires feel the same?A wonderfully weird, darkly funny and endlessly surprising novel fromaward-winning author Lynda Clark.