In Eden, Sonia Overall takes the life and work of Malcolm Lowry and folds it through fiction, obsession and literary haunting.

Moving between Cuba, Mexico, Italy and the imaginative afterlife of Under the Volcano, the novel circles Lowry’s attempts to write, remember, desire and justify himself, while the women around him remain alert to the way men turn life into material and call the damage art.

This is a novel about literary myth from the side door: not the grand heroic portrait of the tormented male genius, but the messier machinery behind it. Wives, muses, ghosts and half-made stories gather around the writer’s appetite, testing the difference between inspiration and extraction, intimacy and use, memory and self-protection. 

A good companion for anyone interested in Jean Rhys, Lowry, Lucia Berlin-adjacent heat, or those books where the sunlight is gorgeous but everyone inside it is behaving badly.

First edition, first printing, published by Weatherglass Books in 2022, with “001” number line. Paperback. Very good condition overall, with light handling to cover and clean internal pages.