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It's Freya's birthday and she's having a party, but her best friends, Ralph Walnut and Lyra Persian, are nowhere to be found! As Freya searches, she meets lots of friends and neighbours who give her presents of shiny, bright balloons. So many balloons, in fact, that she's lifted right into the air! As she soars over the Sylvanian Village, she starts to wonder how she will ever get down...and whether her two best friends will turn up in time to help.

Edward’s sister, Iris, still lives in the family home. A taxidermist and medium, she urges Annie to watch out for black feathers―claiming that they mark the spot where a spirit has visited. At first, Annie dismisses these warnings. But before long, she begins to feel haunted. What exactly happened to Edward’s first wife? Why is Iris so disturbed? And should Annie really be watching for signs from the dead―when it seems that she is the one being watched?

Parade is a story that confronts and demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character and plot to tell a true story—about art, family, morality, gender and how we compose ourselves. A writer and a visionary like no other, Rachel Cusk turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.