Gravity is the Thing
by Jaclyn Moriarty (Harper, 2019); audiobook read by Aimee Horne (W. F. Howes, 2019)
For much of the book, Moriarty treads a fine, facetious line between quirky characterisation and utterly banal, cod-observational wisdom. This, it turns out, is artfully used both to obscure and to foreshadow plot shifts. Kudos for incorporating a single mother/young child relationship.