Catherine Lacey: The Mobius Book Bag Living in Whitechapel through the

Living in Whitechapel through the seventies and eighties

Jarman’s text moves through myriad scenes

and animals

Tish Murtha and Paul Trevor

Catherine Lacey: The Mobius Book Bag Living in Whitechapel through theGranta Books, 2025, hardcover, 240 pages, 13. 8 x 21. 6 cm The sudden, devastating breakup of a relationship in the winter of 2021 left Catherine Lacey depressed and adrift. She began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of her friendships, a process that led to the writing of fiction that was both entirely imagined and strangely, utterly true. She soon realised that she was writing about her relationship with faith. Betrayed by the