Dunnett, Roisin
Entry updated 19 May 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author whose first book, Animal, Vegetable (coll 2021 chap), conflates the categories inferable from her title into an amalgam of exploratory fictions about the nature of flesh, alterity, sentience, Gender. The initial protagonist of her first novel, A Line You Have Traced (2025), a young woman surviving in the aftermath culture that succeeded World War One, is visited via Time Travel by a twenty-second century woman, struggling in a world devastated by Climate Change and opportunistic tyrannies (see Dystopia). Remedies to avert the End of the World are sought. [JC]
Roisin Dunnett
born London.
works
- A Line You Have Traced (London: Oneworld/Magpie, 2025) [hb/]
collections and stories
- Animal, Vegetable (Llandysul, Wales: Broken Sleep Books, 2021) [coll: chap: pb/nonpictorial]
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