Monumenta

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS McKITTERICK PRIZE 2025

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT

'This is a party I'm glad I was invited to' EILEEN MYLES

'Fizzing with ideas' OBSERVER

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Isn't every family home a monument? The provocative debut novel from the award-winning author.



Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned.

The council will bulldoze it.

Her home will become a monument to a massacre.

But Olga cannot ascertain which massacre. Three different architects visit, each with a proposal to construct a different monument, to memorialise a different horror.

Within an atmosphere of razor-sharp political surreality, Lara Haworth spins a tender, magical story of familial love and loss. Via a panoply of perspectives Monumenta compellingly and playfully explores remembrance and how tragedy can be the catalyst for remarkable transformation.

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'Lara Haworth is an important new voice' CLARE POLLARD

'A laser-sharp work of concentrated brilliance' WENDY ERSKINE

'Surreal, quirky, playful and serious' PRISCILLA MORRIS

'A gem of genuine absurdism' HOLLY PESTER