An industrial accident in a wire factory and the chance discovery
of a birth certificate. Church services held in a ruined swimming
pool. An unidentified elephant skull. Midland tells the stories of
three young women as they fight to find their feet amidst the
accumulated rubble of the twentieth century. From the bombsites of
the 1940s to the construction sites of the 1960s and the school
halls and decaying tower blocks of the 1980s, Honor Gavin has
created an ingenious narrative of one Midlands family that is also
a startling, anarchic history of a city. Composed in electric prose
that soars and dives, blending keenly observed dialect with urban
theory, cinema, farcical digressions and surrealist timekeeping,
Midland is a novel out of time but in the middle of everything.
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