No Such Thing As Monday by Sian Hughes
No Such Thing As Monday by Sian Hughes
�Imagine someone suddenly starts saying Tuesday comes straight after Sunday. You learn not to mention Monday. Monday is not a thing in your house. At school you might write Monday on your page, but you�d never make that mistake at home.� Steffie spends her days working in a dry-cleaner�s, trying to scrub the world clean one garment at a time. But no matter how spotless the clothes, she can�t rid herself of the guilt and grime she feels inside. Haunted by what happened to her sister when they were children, large fragments of which she can�t fully remember, Steffie is stuck in a loop of self destruction, defiance, and shame. When her violent, bullying father dies suddenly, it sparks a reckoning that cracks open her past. What follows is an unexpectedly redemptive journey of a woman trying to piece herself together in a world that failed to make space for her. Raw, exhilarating, funny and full of heart, No Such Thing As Monday confirms Sian Hughes as a masterful chronicler of life lived on the edge, and people at their most vulnerable.
