Ghost Music An Yu

Harvill Secker £14.99

Lonesome Beijing piano teacher Song Yan gave up a career as a concert pianist to get married. Three years on, her husband is still holding out on giving her a child, and a recurring dream finds her conversing with a giant mushroom. Then, someone starts sending her anonymous parcels of fungi… This playful, often surreal novel packs in plenty more mysteries as its heroine realises how little she knows her husband, and indeed her own self. It’s an elusive tale, steeped in atmosphere.