Delphi av Clare Pollard

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<p><b>''Vivid as fireworks ... Both terrifying and exhilarating'' </b>Doireann N¿hr¿a, author of <i>A Ghost in the Throat</i><br><br><b>''Funny and sharp ... A hungry book, looking everywhere and seeing everything'' </b><i>Observer</i><br><br>In a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined, a woman is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the ancient world.<br><br>Navigating the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes fixated on our many forms of divination and prediction: on oracles, tarot cards and tea leaves and the questions we have always asked as we scroll and click and rage against our fates.<br><br>But in doing so she fails to notice the future creeping into the heart of her own home. For despite our best intentions - our sacrifices and our bargains with the gods - time, certainty and, sometimes, those we love, can still slip away ...<br><br>Heartbreakingly relatable and ac