Description

Peach lives alone and adrift in London. In her forties, she still works in the Mayfair gallery she once thought would be a stepping stone towards her own career as an artist. She is too old for her drunken hook-ups and nervous breakdowns, too self-aware to think her unhappiness could be cured by a relationship and a baby. She is too young to feel this tired.

Peach is woken one night with news that her father, who suffers with Alzheimer’s, is in intensive care. She has barely seen her family in twenty-five years. What happens when they gather at the hospital will force her to confront a past she has spent twenty-five years trying to avoid.

Spiked with dark humour and written with caustic energy, This Is Yesterday is a story of a woman’s relationship with her art, her body, her memories, herself. It is a story of beginning, ending and becoming.