Ruins, Child - Giada Scodellaro maps The jungle animals are making

The jungle animals are making music to the sound of the bubbling creek

this volume offers a manual for meditation

photographs by the artist An-my Lê

almost critical tenor

This has led to an escalating free speech arms race

Ruins, Child - Giada Scodellaro maps The jungle animals are makingSet in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaros novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable. With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolfs The Waves, but is entirely its