Little Zoe Fox is only three, but she is sure she used to live in another house, in another part of town, with another mother and father... Dinah, her mother, won't countenance such nonsense, even when an old lady from that 'other part of town' takes Zoe under her wing. In fact, it suits Dinah down to the ground to leave her daughter in Caddy Dutton's care, sometimes - after all, to what harm can she come?
"The inspiration - if I can call it that - for this came from my watching a documentary about children who claimed exactly this for themselves, that they'd lived a previous life, and I wondered how it'd be to be living your life with this belief and how it'd be for your family..."
'A curious, compelling story of reincarnation. In turn each character tells her part of the story, reacting and interacting, revealing fresh aspects of the complex whole… the very different first-person narrations all touch the heart.'
—Ham & High
'Past Caring is a perceptive novel by a writer who skilfully blends the everyday with the fantastic. Zoe Fox's struggle to fight free of the people who want to possess her is both poignant and believable.'
—Helen Dunmore
Dunn writes about Zoe and her young mother Dinah with a warm and attentive style which makes her characters compellingly real.'
—Time Out
'An absorbing story… Past Caring creates an unusual atmosphere that grips the reader.'
—Sunday Express
'Past Caring combines detailed observations of contemporary suburban life with a childlike magic.'
—TLS
‘Suzannah Dunn writes in loaded and knowing prose, like a hip Edna O’Brien or Muriel Spark in a gymslip.’
—Glasgow Herald
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