Chrysalis

Anna Metcalfe

An unnerving, compulsive and utterly contemporary debut novel about one woman’s metamorphosis into an online phenomenon, from a Sunday Times Short Story Award-shortlisted writer.

Seen from the perspective of three people who know her at different stages in her transformation, here is a woman on a singular and solitary path, gradually gathering the power to influence those who are drawn to her, for good and ill. This is a strikingly modern story about the age-old search for answers and inspiration.

‘Unputdownable, ice-cool and wittily contemporary… this brilliant portrayal of desire and transcendence had me totally entranced’ Sharlene Teo

‘I can’t stop thinking about this incredibly smart and totally unique novel... I savoured every last brilliant sentence’ Ruth Gilligan

FICTION £14.99 May Demy 216 × 138mm HB 256pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 908 5 (HB)

anna metcalfe

lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. She was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. This is her first novel.