Naming Monsters

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Seventeen-year-old Fran is plagued by monsters. They leach out from the folklore and legend where they belong, and invade her thoughts and dreams. We meet her at the end of the summer of 1993, dealing with the unassailable fact of her mother's recent death. Fearing the results of her GCSE retakes as well as vaster, darker forces, she gets through the day with the help of a motley crew of characters, including her Nana, her best friend Alex, and an elderly eccentric from the local pub. As she shuttles to and fro between the time-warp of her Nana's flat and the cosy suburb she grew up in, Fran begins to claim her grief back from the monsters and live with it in the everyday.

Reviews

'A strange and haunting contemporary folk tale about how our inner demons can be battled against but seldom defeated. It will stay with you, incubus-like, long after you've finished it. Beware and enjoy.' Ian Rankin 'Very impressive...this is scary good.' Alison Bechdel 'Naming Monsters is a unique book, an obvious labour of love. It's intimate, poignant, sometimes very moving and often genuinely creepy.' Bryan Talbot 'Naming Monsters seems so inviting, so recognisable; peppered with sublimely rude humour, intertwined with folklore and still able to spring powerful emotional punches.' Hannah Berry 'This is the first graphic novel I've read in years and it reminded me how much I enjoy them. A stunning and yet poignant look at life after the death of a loved one through the eyes of the young at heart.' Serendipity Reviews 'This was one of those books that I knew was going to be good right from the start, and it didn't disappoint [...] Naming Monsters is beautiful and honest and if you were a teenager in the '90s you will probably love it.' An Armchair by the Sea 'It's hard to believe this is a 'first' graphic novel, it's such an accomplished work, both in terms of the narrative and its structural composition, but indeed also the art.' Jonathan, Page45. 'Eaton has an astonishingly keen ear for dialogue, catching the particular rhythms and inflections of teenage banter with an ease one rarely sees in any form of fiction, let alone comics.' Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier

Author Bio

Hannah Eaton was born in London and now lives in Brighton. She is an artist, writer and performer, and a learning mentor in a primary school.