- Published: 29 September 2021
- ISBN: 9780099559269
- Imprint: Windmill Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $27.99
The Butterfly Lampshade

















- Published: 29 September 2021
- ISBN: 9780099559269
- Imprint: Windmill Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $27.99
a beautifully written portrayal of a girl trying to understand her mother's mental illness.
Sunday Express
[A] compact surrealist memory box of a novel. . . Its particular quality of stillness hums with so much mystery and intensity that the book never feels static . . . I felt considerably more altered by the experience than I often am by novels that travel much further from their beginnings . . . One finishes the novel with the eerie sense that we too are objects who have slipped accidentally into being.
New York Times
[A] dazzling rumination on time and mental illness ... Bender has a gift for rooting wonderfully inventive fables in a very recognisable walkable world [and the] middle-class Los Angeles of backyards and hatchbacks, bus stops and craft shops, is overlaid with mythic events-modest miracles, observed by few, that expose a world of mystery. . . [Francie's] receptiveness to the marvels eddying around brightens every detail in a small, deeply felt life.
Oprah Magazine
[A] poignant novel of love and mental illness.
USA Today