Celebrated novelist Frances Oppenheimer has long been an enigma, a mystery even to her closest observer: her daughter.
In the shadow of a family tragedy never spoken of, Frances has retreated even further, and the desire to understand her has grown stronger still. Now tasked with writing a manuscript of her own, Frances’ daughter combines inherited stories, overheard conversations, family heirlooms, and scenes of her own imagination as she sets out to assemble a portrait that may at last bring her mother into view.
The Unknowing will be published in spring 2027 by Hutchinson Heinemann.
Eloise Poole 