The Appointment cover art

The Appointment

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for £5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Appointment

By: Katharina Volckmer
Narrated by: Katharina Volckmer
Try Standard free

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £10.33

Buy Now for £10.33

About this listen

In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, and her struggles with her sexuality and identity.

Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted homeland. In a monologue that is both razor-sharp and subversively funny, she takes us on a wide-ranging journey from outré sexual fantasies and overbearing mothers to the medicinal properties of squirrel tails and the enduring legacy of shame.

With The Appointment, her audacious debut novel, Katharina Volckmer challenges our notions of what is fluid and what is fixed and injects a dose of Bernhardian snark into contemporary British fiction.

©2020 Katharina Volckmer (P)2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Women's Fiction Funny England

Critic reviews

"Surprising, inventive, disturbing and beautiful - The Appointment is an overdue, radical intervention." (Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick)
No reviews yet