Upcoming:

Home is Where we Start: (Fig Tree/Penguin summer 2024)

'Beautiful, Bold, Tender. I loved this gorgeous memoir about making home' Dr. Pragya Agarwal

In the late seventies, six-year-old Susanna moved with her mother and siblings to a utopian commune in rural England. For over fifteen years, she lived inside a crumbling mansion with fifty adults and children, trying to remake the world.

Decades later, with the benefit of hindsight, she returns to her own childhood with pressing questions. What happens to children when we try to abolish the family? What is it really like to be the product of a social experiment? And how can we criticise the damage caused by revolutions while retaining a belief in the power of change? Part personal memoir, part critical analysis, Crossman turns to leading thinkers in philosophy, sociology and ethics to examine the many meanings of family and home.

Helen Garnons-Williams says: ‘Susanna is an extraordinary writer, and in this lyrical, expansive and richly-layered memoir she explores the troubling questions of responsibility, freedom, family and revolution with fierce intelligence and clear-eyed empathy’.

Upcoming:

The Orange Notebooks: (novel, Bluemoose, Spring 2025)

BLUEMOOSE PRE-EMPTS DAZZLING, LYRICAL NOVEL, THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS

Kevin Duffy of Bluemoose Books snapped up UK & Commonwealth (x Canada) rights, in an exclusive submission, from Jessica Craig of Craig Literary to Susanna Crossman’s dazzling, lyrical novel, The Orange Notebooks, about a mother’s journey through grief to radical hope.  This will be Crossman’s first novel to be published in English. 

Told through a woman’s journals written after the death of her son, The Orange Notebooks, is about love, destiny, colours, bees, and the lost language and rituals of mourning. After her son’s death, Anna has a breakdown. In a French psychiatric ward she meets Yann, a Breton sea captain. Together, they go on a surreal Orphic journey to the underworld, sailing from Finistère to the middle of the English Channel. Myth and reality collide allowing Anna to begin the healing process.

Bookbrunch “Susanna Crossman’s first novel in English goes to Bluemoose”