Karrie Fransman’s cartoon strips, which have appeared in the Guardian, and her graphic novel The House That Groaned,which won the Observer Book of the Month award, often – as the title suggests – capture the way that places themselves can become characters in a story. From a blustery park bench in ‘The Night I Lost My Love’ around which the course of a whole life appears to turn to a boxy Camden hovel which would sometimes catch the light in a certain way that reflected the road on the ceiling, places often have an uncanny knack for surprising us.
One of the best reads in a long time. No doubt.