Arrowhead
A moving and inventive debut novel about the search for missing origins
The anonymous first-person narrator in Teddy Tops’s debut novel is the sole survivor of a car crash that kills her parents, leaving her – just four years old – with only a handful of memories that she can’t be sure are true. Each time she replays them in her mind, they appear in a different setting or feature different cast members. How can she know where she really comes from?
FictionPrint
Original title
Egelskop
Author
Teddy Tops
Year of publication
2026
Page count
160
Contact for translation rights
Martijn Prins
m.prins@singeluitgeverijen.nl
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Tops combines a compact writing style with fluid prose, distilling an incredible amount of life into 157 pages.
NRC (4 stars)
What if women in post-war Europe had been free to choose their own path? Teddy Tops’s heartfelt novel explores that possibility.
de Volkskrant
Ernaux, and then some.
De Groene Amsterdammer
Teddy Tops
Teddy Tops (Utrecht, 1988) is a radio presenter, interviewer, writer and programme writer. She is also the director of the international spoken word platform Mensen Zeggen Dingen.