{"id":1860,"date":"2020-09-21T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2020-09-21T16:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:27:47","slug":"mst-alumna-daisy-johnsons-novel-sisters-reviewed-in-the-observer-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"MSt alumna Daisy Johnson&#8217;s novel &#8220;Sisters&#8221; reviewed in the Observer, New York Times."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.guardianbookshop.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/d874a8bbdcb4970eec2cd89f161c9b16\/9\/7\/9781787331624_1.jpg?resize=225%2C381&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"381\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MSt alumna Daisy Johnson&#8217;s novel <em>Sisters<\/em> was reviewed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/aug\/24\/sisters-by-daisy-johnson-review-complex-and-chilling\">the Observer, <\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/25\/books\/review\/sisters-daisy-johnson.html\">the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the Observer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King, her work a dark torrent of nightmarish images, her gothic vision startlingly vivid and distinctive.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the New York Times;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSisters\u201d is a gripping ordeal, a relentlessly macabre account of grief and guilt, identity and codependency, teenage girls and their mothers. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSt alumna Daisy Johnson&#8217;s novel Sisters was reviewed in the Observer, and in the New York Times. From the Observer &#8220;&#8230; Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King, her work a dark torrent of nightmarish images, her gothic vision startlingly vivid and distinctive.&#8221; From the New York Times; \u201cSisters\u201d is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-u0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1613,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1613","url_meta":{"origin":1860,"position":0},"title":"MSt alumna Daisy Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;Everything Under&#8221; on Guardian and Lithub&#8217;s Books of the Year lists","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"December 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt alumna Daisy Johnson's Booker-shortlisted novel Everything Under is one of the Guardian's \"Best Books of the Year\", and one of Lithub's Favourite Books of 2018.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Alumni News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Alumni News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.penguin.co.uk\/content\/dam\/prh\/books\/111\/1110035\/9781784702113.jpg.transform\/PRHDesktopWide_small\/image.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1177,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1177","url_meta":{"origin":1860,"position":1},"title":"MSt alumna Daisy Johnson longlisted for Sunday Times EFG Short Story award","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"February 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo from Eve White agency MSt alumna Daisy Johnson's short story \"Blood Rites\" has been longlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. 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