LIST OF INGREDIENTS: COMING OF AGE, SELECTIVE MEMORY, MAGICAL REALISM, LIZARDS.
Eliza Young’s leg has acquired a scaly mutation. She travels to an island to work as an au pair, but finds herself trespassing on a reptilian civilisation. Lizard follows her bizarre and engrossing struggle to adapt to the changes in her leg and her life.
Schick has created a lively and refreshing novella, with enchanting dialogues between thought and speech, reality and make-believe, the magic of childhood and the sobriety of getting older; a joy for anyone who has been, or is, reluctant to grow up.
‘Lizard …The Cover promises it will be a tasty little read and tasty it was, a pleasure to curl up to and certainly one to recommend’
The Cherwell Paper
Profile of the author – Leonore Schick in the Cherwell,
Oxford University
