{"product_id":"lack-the-poignant-new-literary-fiction-novel-for-2026","title":"Lack: The poignant new literary fiction novel for 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e'CECILIA KNAPP BEAUTIFULLY CAPTURES THE EXPERIENCE OF CONTEMPORARY WOMANHOOD IN THIS LYRICAL AND INSIGHTFUL NOVEL. A GENUINE TRIUMPH' ELIZA CLARK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'POIGNANT TO THE BONE. LACK IS BOTH MASTERFULLY, POETICALLY COMPLEX AND BEAUTIFULLY EASY TO READ' GEMMA CAIRNEY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the quiet, lonely hours of the middle of the night, a woman scrolls social media on her phone. Babies are everywhere. All her friends seem to have one. But she is full of doubt – just the creep sniffing at the window. How can she consider the enormity of new life when the world outside is burning?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBesides, there’s something wrong in her body. She can feel it: pain, a constant dull ache she is too frightened to investigate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then there’s something darker, pulsing beneath the surface, threatening to catch up with her. Hers is a life deeply affected by grief and chaos; the death of her mother, a long buried sexual assault, and a drawn-out affair with a married actor of middling fame and maximum ego – full of glamour, hedonism, obsession and control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs it possible to rebuild, when all you feel is lack?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e––-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A stunning poet and an equally gorgeous storyteller. I love everything Cecilia Knapp writes' HOLLIE MCNISH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her’ KAE TEMPEST\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I really love Cecilia’s writing. It's sharp. Cuts to the quick. And offers my favourite thing, a real insight into the minds of women and all the things we don't often get to say out loud' SALMA EL-WARDANY\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58023849034059,"sku":"9780008766108","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9780008766108.jpg?v=1785765762","url":"https:\/\/paperwing.co.uk\/products\/lack-the-poignant-new-literary-fiction-novel-for-2026","provider":"Paperwing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}