Ash

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Louise Wallace writes the excruciating and transformative with such precision it’s almost impossible to believe. This is a razor-sharp novel: claustrophobic and expansive at once, full of terror and dark humour.
Lottie Hazell, author of PIGLET

Louise Wallace is a keen observer of humanity. In Ash, she's created a memorable woman on the verge, a singular narrator in less-than-ideal circumstances: a chaotic schedule, an unjust workplace, a helpless husband, and a child that's fallen sick due to a sudden freak environmental disaster. New experiences call for new containers, new ways to tell a story. As poetic as it is experimental, Ash is one woman's bold attempt to create a novel way to talk about the unprecedented . . . a novel you'll consume in one sitting
Katie Yee, author of MAGGIE; OR A MAN AND A WOMAN WALK INTO A BAR

About Louise Wallace

LOUISE WALLACE is the author of four collections of poems, including THIS IS A STORY ABOUT YOUR MOTHER (2023). She is the founder and editor of Starling, an online journal publishing the work of young writers from Aotearoa, and the editor of Orongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2022. She is a recipient of the Biggs Prize for Poetry and a Robert Burns fellow. She grew up in Gisborne and lives in Otepoti Dunedin.

ASH is her debut novel.

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