![]() ![]() ![]() She retreats from emotional entanglements, devoting herself to work, where, with some irony, she is responsible for testing heart-repairing technology on dogs. Rage and hysterical laughter cause her whole body to freeze and fall. Subtler sensations, such as the ‘oddly poignant remorse and self-reproach’ you feel when you just miss a train, might make her knees go weak. Instead, she suffers from a real-life condition that leaves her ‘paralyzed by emotion’. ![]() His Daphne, a lab supervisor in San Francisco at the start of this decade, doesn’t quite turn into a tree. Will Boast’s debut novel is something like a modern retelling of her story. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the naiad Daphne is transformed into a laurel tree to escape the lustful attentions of the god Apollo. ![]()
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