Strange Talk by Lynda Clark

Strange Talk

Amie has always heard things other people can’t. Her rickety old house is alive with voices: smug comments from the fridge, needy cries from the smoke alarm, romantic overtures from the toaster. Then there’s Door, Amie’s closest friend, whose voice has abruptly gone quiet.

When her nephew Jay comes to stay unexpectedly, Amie is forced to let the outside world into the house. As she helps Jay to navigate his sexuality and estrangement from his parents, with backup from her eccentric ‘found family’ of appliances, she begins to acknowledge her own secret longings. But does the object of her desires feel the same?

A wonderfully weird, darkly funny and endlessly surprising novel from award-winning author Lynda Clark.

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Published: 05/11/2026

ISBN: 9781914148842

Price: £9.99

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Praise for Lynda Clark

‘Sublime weird writing… Clark is a significant, exciting new voice’ —Will Forrester, English PEN

‘Clark’s imaginative, well-rounded characters and absorbing plot draw you into her world’ —Emma D’Costa, Commonwealth Writers

‘Lynda Clark’s stories are thought-provoking, very funny, sometimes poignant, and always entertaining’ —Jo Lloyd, winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2019

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