"A brutally beautiful, terrifying tale of post-natal depression and identity struggles unfolds when a traumatised woman discovers her own dead body."
Exploring the traumatic themes of post-natal depression and feelings of suicide with necessary boldness, Gemma Amor’s autobiographical debut novel achieves what speculative fiction does best - Full Immersion is fiercely thought-provoking endeavour. As raised in the author’s deeply personal foreword, it grapples with questions around “the value of a woman’s life”, “the value of human life”, and “how willing we are sometimes to let that life fall to the wayside”.
When Magpie finds her own corpse, a stranger helps her drag it from a Bristol river and she’s driven to investigate what happened to her. Haunted by fragmented memories of the life she led with her husband and child, and under the surveillance of an experimental therapy programme, she’s later forced to flee the sinister Silhouette predator as her unravelled identity is assaulted by the programme.
With a palpable sense of time running out, and a potent portrayal of trauma, there’s also a sense of empowerment, of fleeing monsters, and taking flight to find freedom.
| Primary Genre | Horror and Supernatural Fiction |
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