Author of
Everything is Made of Water
and
The Unfamiliar Name
Emma Oxbrow is a London-based British-Burmese writer of literary and commercial fiction. Her work centres queer and BIPOC women’s voices and lives, blending lyrical prose with immersive historical detail.
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The Unfamiliar Name
Burma, 1938.
In the hilly forests of British-occupied land, Su Yi Myat is an orphaned woman with no place in a world ruled by colonial power and rigid tradition. When she befriends Edith, the overseer’s troubled niece, an unlikely bond forms – one that defies the boundaries of race, class, and expectation.
As war looms and tensions rise, their secret world begins to crumble, and love becomes a matter of survival.
Torn between loyalty and betrayal, belonging and exile, they must decide: will they cling to the past or risk everything for a future together?
A sweeping tale of forbidden love, resistance, and the search for identity, The Unfamiliar Name is a gripping exploration of love and defiance in the shadow of war.
Everything is Made of Water
Who is Gertie, and where is she going?
At an airport she cannot quite place, surrounded by faces she should recognise, Gertie tries to hold onto the fragments of her life. Memories drift in and out – her childhood in Burma, young motherhood at sea, the husband she both loves and fears. But as time unravels, so does her sense of reality.
With each passing chapter, the world around Gertie grows more disjointed, slipping through her grasp like water. A stranger lurks in her home. A familiar street becomes a foreign land. The past and present merge, and the boundary between memory and illusion blurs beyond repair.
Haunting, lyrical, and deeply moving, Everything is Made of Water captures the fragile threads of memory and selfhood that hold a life together – until they don’t.
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