The amphibious cult classic: this magical tale of a suburban housewife''s affair with a frogman is ''seductive'' (Margaret Atwood), ''genius'' (Patricia Lockwood), ''perfect'' (Max Porter), ''a feminist masterpiece'' (Carmen Maria Machado), and ''out-weirds and out-romances anything today'' (Marlon James).
Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce. One day, she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research – but little does she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular, vegetarian, sexually magnetic, Larry the frogman is a revelation – and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams ... Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs Caliban is a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago.
''A perfect novel.’ New Yorker
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''Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written''*****
''A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape of Water.''*****
''Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.''*****
''Absolutely incredible. It''s weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.''*****
''One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I’ve ever read. It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human ... Genius.''*****
''Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies ... Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. ''*****
''Hooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night.''*****
''What the hell just happened?''*****
