The Butterfly Lampshade

a beautifully written portrayal of a girl trying to understand her mother’s mental illness. * Sunday Express *
[A] compact surrealist memory box of a novel… Its particular quality of stillness hums with so much mystery and intensity that the book never feels static … I felt considerably more altered by the experience than I often am by novels that travel much further from their beginnings … One finishes the novel with the eerie sense that we too are objects who have slipped accidentally into being. * New York Times *
[A] dazzling rumination on time and mental illness … Bender has a gift for rooting wonderfully inventive fables in a very recognisable walkable world [and the] middle-class Los Angeles of backyards and hatchbacks, bus stops and craft shops, is overlaid with mythic events-modest miracles, observed by few, that expose a world of mystery… [Francie’s] receptiveness to the marvels eddying around brightens every detail in a small, deeply felt life. * Oprah Magazine *
[A] poignant novel of love and mental illness. * USA Today *

Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a New York Times bestseller, and An Invisible Sign of My Own; and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures and The Color Master. Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

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