Anna Goldreich

A triumphant first novel . . . This bold debut about a woman finding healing after a late miscarriage is written with utter conviction . . . highly accomplished, calmly devastating and eerily moving

The Leveret is a mesmerising and haunting debut from a rare and singular talent. Anna Goldreich has written something so deeply stirring, heartbreaking and filled with ache, it transcends words. Turning the last pages, I was completely speechless. Anna's is a once in a generation talent

Goldreich's novel tracks a careful line through ideas of delusion, love and the nastily isolating nature of baby loss with precise and piercing lyricism

A vivid and mesmerisingly powerful debut . . . Goldreich’s spare, beautiful prose captures the essence of both women’s struggle to grapple not only with the pain of loss but the ever-yawning rift it has opened between them

From the Norwich-based writer Anna Goldreich, The Leveret revolves around Clare and Phoebe, who believe that moving to the countryside will solve their marital woes and give their relationship a new lease of life, especially after the miscarriage of the daughter they were expecting . . . Tissues at the ready

Hugely intense and beautifully unsettling - a searing, intimate novel about grief’s wildness — I couldn’t look away

A brilliantly written, brave debut. The Leveret is deeply affecting about the ferocity of care, and it bounds with all the pain and beauty that comes with that

Bruisingly poignant and quietly uneasy, this is a story of loss and isolation that will stay with you long after reading

A haunting and heartbreaking exploration of baby loss within a queer relationship, delicately exploring how a couple might react differently following the loss of a child depening on who carried the baby

A compelling read . . . Where Anna Goldreich scores is in her visceral treatment of grief, which really hits home. And the way she draws the relationship between Clare and Phoebe is imbued with a real truth

A beautiful but very sad book about grief, love and healing

Róisín Lanigan, author of 'I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There'

Nothing about The Leveret is supernatural, yet its poetic intensity gives it the haunting quality of a folk-horror tale, laden with themes of loss and love. It’s a tremendously affecting debut novel, raw and painful and not for the faint of heart

Gorgeously tender with beautiful and poetic prose . . . An intense and haunting read but one that felt deeply necessary

A truly heartbreaking account of grief, love, depression and resilience

A tangled story of love and loss, confronting as it is hopeful. Anna Goldreich is one to watch

The Leveret is a poetic testimony of queer care while also bearing witness to the devastation wreaked by loss. I found Goldreich’s prose just staggering – this is the kind of visceral, unflinching language that pulls the body close and asks us to feel every jagged contour of its pain. I was so moved by Clare and Phoebe’s relationship as they scrabble among the pieces of their shared life for a way back to one another. Goldreich brings these human rituals of grieving into contact with the harsh ambivalence of nature to craft a story that feels both mythic and intimate – something truly primal is at work in these pages

Rowe Irvin, author of 'Life Cycle of a Moth'

A story that enfolds you with messy, beautiful, painful love

Sophie Ward, author of 'Love and Other Thought Experiments'

Anna Goldreich writes with searing clarity and immense heart. This is a haunting novel full of rich imagery, distinct voice and so much imagination. Anna Goldreich is clearly a writer to keep an eye on

Addictive, poignant, and unlike anything I’ve read before, The Leveret is such an important novel. With its beautiful, overflowing depiction of loss and queer relationships, it was an honour to witness Clare and Phoebe’s love, the way they adapt to each other’s needs, attempting to connect through their loss. I’m so pleased it exists

Goldreich's incantatory flow of grief-choked prose marks out The Leveret as a striking rural sister piece to Charlie Porter’s Nova Scotia House, and it packs a similar heart-draining punch

A tender exploration of grief and the alienation felt after loss, The Leveret is a strikingly mature debut from Anna Goldreich. Clare and Phoebe's relationship to each other, the before and after of tragedy, is depicted with such sensitivity as is their relationship with Isla, leading to an incredibly touching, cathartic final scene

Moving to the countryside is supposed to fix Clare and Phoebe’s relationship. A fresh start, a change of scenery, a chance to heal after the miscarriage of their baby girl. 
 
Instead, Phoebe feels suffocated. Back in the rural community she ran from at seventeen and unable to face the partner she cannot help, she throws herself into work on the family farm. Clare is a stranger in the village, uninitiated and out of place. She spends her days drifting around the cottage, its walls groaning and shifting as she withdraws into a world inside her head. 
 
One day, wandering through the forest nearby, Clare finds a leveret – her own little Isla. A surrogate to lick and love. A way to feel whole again. 
 
But as Isla grows into an adult hare she becomes wild and unruly – a kicking, biting, scratching creature. With Clare’s grasp on reality growing ever more tenuous, Phoebe begins to question whether Isla is the cure for grief Clare is searching for as she desperately clings on to the woman she loves . . . 
 
With this bruisingly tender love story, debut author Anna Goldreich has conjured a hazy dream of a novel about the fantasies we create as a refuge from grief. The Leveret is a heartbreakingly gorgeous and lyrically haunting hymn to queer love and the power to rebuild from the wreckage of a relationship.

Anna Goldreich

Praise for The Leveret

A triumphant first novel . . . This bold debut about a woman finding healing after a late miscarriage is written with utter conviction . . . highly accomplished, calmly devastating and eerily moving

The Leveret is a mesmerising and haunting debut from a rare and singular talent. Anna Goldreich has written something so deeply stirring, heartbreaking and filled with ache, it transcends words. Turning the l ...

Goldreich's novel tracks a careful line through ideas of delusion, love and the nastily isolating nature of baby loss with precise and piercing lyricism

A triumphant first novel . . . This bold debut about a woman finding healing after a late miscarriage is written with utter conviction . . . highly accomplished, calmly devastating and eerily moving

The Leveret is a mesmerising and haunting debut from a rare and singular talent. Anna Goldreich has written something so deeply stirring, heartbreaking and filled with ache, it transcends words. Turning the l ...

Goldreich's novel tracks a careful line through ideas of delusion, love and the nastily isolating nature of baby loss with precise and piercing lyricism

A triumphant first novel . . . This bold debut about a woman finding healing after a late miscarriage is written with utter conviction . . . highly accomplished, calmly devastating and eerily moving

The Leveret is a mesmerising and haunting debut from a rare and singular talent. Anna Goldreich has written something so deeply stirring, heartbreaking and filled with ache, it transcends words. Turning the l ...

Goldreich's novel tracks a careful line through ideas of delusion, love and the nastily isolating nature of baby loss with precise and piercing lyricism

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