Monumenta

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024. SHORTLISTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS McKITTERICK PRIZE 2025 A FINANCIAL TIMES. BEST NEW DEBUT. 'This is a party I'm glad I was invited to'. EILEEN MYLES'Fizzing with ideas'. OBSERVER. Isn't every family home a monument. The provocative debut novel from the award-winning author. Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned. The council will bulldoze it. Her home will become a monument to a massacre. But Olga cannot ascertain which massacre. Three different architects visit, each with a proposal to construct a different monument, to memorialise a different horror. Within an atmosphere of razor-sharp political surreality, Lara Haworth spins a tender, magical story of familial love and loss. Via a panoply of perspectives Monumenta. compellingly and playfully explores remembrance and how tragedy can be the catalyst for remarkable transformation. 'Lara Haworth is an important new voice'. CLARE POLLARD'A laser-sharp work of concentrated brilliance'. WENDY ERSKINE'Surreal, quirky, playful and serious'. PRISCILLA MORRIS'A gem of genuine absurdism'. HOLLY PESTER.