## Details * Title:: [[Awake Awake]] * Authors:: [[Fiona Mozley]] * Tags:: #fiction * Read:: [[2026-07-05]] * Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/p/DabX5r2Dy8q/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[John Murray]], 1st UK Edition, 2026 - Original Copyright:: 2026 - Pages:: 320 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9781523537143 ## Annotations Fiona Mozley’s Awake Awake is an excellent novel about whether memory can be trusted. Mary is going to get called an unreliable narrator, but I think that gets her wrong. Unreliable narrators, like Nabokov’s Humbert, hide things from the reader or themselves. Mary’s not like that. She’s upfront that she doesn’t know what’s happened. She holds certainty and absurdity in the same memory. This makes her fallible, not unreliable, and that hangs over the story. Mozley has the nerve (complimentary!) to finish the book without resolving the uncertainty, and it still works. That it isn’t a spoiler to say so tells you something about her talent. It would have been so much easier, and so much less true, to resolve Mary.