The Loft by Marlen Haushofer #literature BloomsburyISBN: 9781526656582Extent: 272 pages

BloomsburyISBN: 9781526656582Extent: 272 pages

was more akin to Sonny Liston—Black

ISBN: 9781035070862

‘Comedy fantasy at its very best’ 5-star reader review

Twenty-seven and unmarried

The Loft by Marlen Haushofer #literature BloomsburyISBN: 9781526656582Extent: 272 pagesAn Austrian housewife sits in her loft intent on her drawings of birds and insects. Then one day a disturbing package arrives in the post The loft is her retreat, a place she can draw undisturbed, hidden away even from her own family. But the arrival of the parcel threatens her fragile equilibrium. It contains extracts from the narrator's diary, written twenty years before. They date back to a time when she was sent away by her husband to a remote