Artifact
- Author Arlene Heyman
- Narrator Stephanie Ellyne
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Run Time 10 hours and 31 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biology, life sciences, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Erotic fiction, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age.
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What to expect
'The author delves deep into Lottie’s psyche, shying away from nothing, to create a rounded and gripping portrait of a woman on the edge of change’ Daily Mail
Lottie Kristin is independent from the start. Born in the middle of the century to a middle-class family in the very middle of America, Lottie is set apart by her smarts and sensuality. A girl who'd rather carry out dissections on a snowy back porch than join her family for Christmas dinner is a strange and exotic artifact in the town of Sleeping Bay.
But by her early twenties, Lottie finds herself trapped in a marriage gone stale, with a daughter she adores but whose existence jeopardizes her place in the lab and her dream of becoming a scientist. How can a young woman make her way in a world determined to contain her brilliance, her will, and her longing to live?
Bravely and wisely written, Artifact is an intimate and propulsive portrait of a whole woman, a celebration of her refusal to be defined by others’ imaginations, and a meditation on the glorious chaos of biological life.
Critics Review
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A wise, intimate tale that is by turns joyful, sorrowful and explicit
Observer -
Lottie … encapsulates the dichotomy of her life. She’s a smartly realised character – bright yet naïve, determined and single-minded … Heyman handles her subject lightly, lacing it with humour
A Life in Books -
The author delves deep into Lottie’s psyche, shying away from nothing, to create a rounded and gripping portrait of a woman on the edge of change
Daily Mail -
A heroine for our times
Publishers Weekly -
Praise for Scary Old Sex: Lusty, tough and life-affirming
Guardian -
Hits the reader in the psyche, the gut and the groin with the force of a precision-aimed slingshot … Shocking, mesmerising and truthful
Sunday Telegraph
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