Electricity is now a film starring Agyness Deyn
NOW A FILM STARRING AGYNESS DEYN
Thirty-year-old Lily O'Connor is waiting for her life to begin. Holding her back is epilepsy - her constant companion - uncontrollable electrical storms in her brain and body that leave her in a permanent state of edginess. Prickly, up-front-honest and down-to-earth practical, Lily has learned to make do; to look after - and out for - herself.
Then her mother, whom Lily has not seen for years, dies, and Lily is drawn back into a world she thought she'd long since left behind. Reunited with one brother, Lily leaves for London to track down her other, missing brother, Mikey, and thrown out of her comfort zone and into the pandemonium of the city, she is forced to ask how her life is meant to be lived.
'Energetic . . . bristling with talent' The Times
'Mesmerising, uplifting and unexpectedly tender' Jim Crace, author of Harvest
'A breath-taking assault on the senses' Guardian
This visceral debut novel is narrated by Lily O'Connor, a darkly defiant 30-year-old epileptic whose life is punctuated by violent seizures. Robinson chronicles her desperate pursuit of her brother, Mickey, from Blackpool to London with a visual language so vivid you're steamrollered right into their subterranean world.
