New Skin by Sarah Wang games Ciarán finds out just how

Ciarán finds out just how difficult a sport hurling is to pick up when you’re in your sporting dotage

Since his death ten years ago

hundreds of new specimen trees enriched the British landscape

In a tumult of grief

This compelling novel tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense” after being abandoned by her husband

New Skin by Sarah Wang games Ciarán finds out just howWhen Linli Feng returns home to LA after three years absence she is aghast at what she finds. Her mother, Fanny, is unrecognizable. In her endless quest to achieve the right kind of beauty, Fanny has spent the intervening years having bargain procedures in the basements of LAs bootleg beauty parlours. Now Fannys disfigured face is in dangerous revolt, infected and collapsing from black market injectables. But even as Linli tries to wean Fanny off her