Daisy Johnson's first novel, Everything Under, has been short-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. The book's narrator, a woman raised on a canal boat in England, looks back on the unsettling final year she spent with the mother who abandoned her. White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (2009). Oyeyemi's third novel takes the typical haunted-house narrative and uses it to examine racism and the inevitable pull of the past.