Brodie Crellin is a London-based editor at Granta Magazine. In their debut novel, A Sense of Occasion, a fractured family reunited in a small English village after the sudden death of their matriarch, Mary. Over the course of a sweltering funeral weekend, long-buried resentments, secrets, and desires resurface as each family member grapples with grief in their own messy and often self-destructive way. Darkly funny and sharply observed, the novel explores the tangled dynamics of family, sex, and loss, revealing the chaos that lurks beneath even the most ordinary occasions.
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