A Line You Have Traced

A novel

Author Roisin Dunnett

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Named one of the 'Best New Science Fiction Books of April 2025' by New Scientist Cloud Atlas meets This Is How You Lose the Time War in this gorgeous speculative novel that explores how a mysterious red journal connects three women born centuries apart in East London.

In the Jewish East End of post-World War I London, Bea, a young shopkeeper's wife, is visited by an uncanny figure she believes is an angel. She tries to understand the meaning of these visits as the life she is building with her new husband is threatened by fascists who are increasingly targeting her friends and neighbors.
Kay spends nights partying with her friends in contemporary East London's underground queer scene, where one of them…

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April 15, 2025

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ROISIN DUNNETT is a writer from London, England. Her fiction pamphlet Animal, Vegetable was published in 2021 by Broken Sleep Books. Her short fiction has been published in Prototype, Hotel, Ambit, Vittles and elsewhere. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths where she was longlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Prize in 2022.