Knapp, Florence
Entry updated 12 May 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author whose first book, the nonfiction Flossie Teacake's Guide to English Paper Piecing (2018), which analyses and gives lessons in how to weave patchwork paper images out of sometimes disparate materials, may seem in its register to deal with issues cognate with the structuring of her first novel. In The Names (2025), a mother with three choices of a name for her newborn son chooses all three, creating a Jonbar Point from which three Alternate Histories exfoliate, as woven together through the telling of the tale: which ends in a form of unity. The tale shares an emotional resonance with Jo Walton's My Real Children (2014), though the alternate worlds in that earlier novel are fully developed. [JC]
Florence Knapp
born
works (selected)
- The Names (New York: Viking/Pamela Dorman Books, 2025) [hb/]
links
- Florence Knapp
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