SERPENT’S TAIL Autumn 2020
Contents 1 Serpent’s Tail Introduction 2–3 I Give It To You Valerie Martin 4–5 Before the Ruins Victoria Gosling 6 The Exiles Adrien Bosc 7 On Time and Water Andri Snær Magnason 8–9 The House on Fripp Island Rebecca Kauffman 10 Viper Books Introduction 11 The Knocks Kate Simants 12–13 The Resident David Jackson 14 Peace Garry Disher 15 Recently published in crime 16 Selected Poems Langston Hughes 17 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Horace McCoy 18 Eat My Heart Out Zoe Pilger 19 Horse Poems Various 20 Satantango László Krasznahorkai 21 Other novels by László Krasznahorkai 22 Trust Exercise Susan Choi 23 New in paperback 24–25 Recently published 26–31 Backlist 32–33 Contact information
Introduction
Serpent’s Tail an imprint of Profile Books Ltd 29 Cloth Fair, London EC1A 7JQ
In this new decade, Serpent’s Tail wishes for two things – to better understand the world around us and to be really well entertained. So here is a season of books that combine the endless fascination of other people’s lives with gripping stories and challenging morality. Whether it’s who belongs and who does not, or what we owe our friends and what we choose not to share with them, our writers have plenty to say about how we might live together. From a stately Tuscan villa concealing long-hidden wartime secrets, to a lushly forested island off the coast of Florida teeming with flamingos and alligators, and on to a cramped row of houses stalked by a killer in hiding, each of our books reveals a fractured world in which people are faced with impossible choices, intricate mysteries and, sometimes, unexpected joy. From crime fiction on our new imprint Viper to prizewinning literary writers, from debuts to established authors, what unites our books this season is the importance of imagination. We’re excited to introduce you to these wonderful books – and we hope you’ll pass them on to your friends in turn.
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Rebecca Gray Acting Publisher, Serpent’s Tail
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I Give It To You
New title
Valerie Martin
‘Do you like it?’ she said. ‘I give it to you.’ Jan Vidor arrives at Villa Chiara intent on learning Italian, touring the Tuscan hill towns and casting about for a subject for her next novel. She is well acquainted with strangers offering their personal histories for her fiction, but when her aristocratic host Beatrice makes a passing remark about violent events at the villa during World War II, Jan wants to know more. For Jan, her friend’s family history is irresistible. It doesn’t occur to her that Beatrice regrets having told it, or that she might consider Jan’s version a betrayal of trust. Isn’t stealing other people’s lives the business of a novelist? Jan has no illusions about the answer to this question. It’s yes. It’s always yes. I Give It To You is a riveting novel about who owns a story, whether we have a right to what we inherit and what a gift really means.
‘Martin writes with amplitude, precision, grace and wit.’ Margaret Atwood
Valerie Martin is the author of ten novels, including The Ghost of the Mary Celeste, Mary Reilly, Italian Fever and Property, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also written three collections of short fiction including Sea Lovers, and a biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, Salvation.
‘She always produces something unexpected and revelatory.’ Jane Smiley
Fiction £14.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 553 7 288pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 209 6 August 2020 UK Com ex Can Exclusive Europe
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The whole afternoon lay ahead, spectral in its perfection. The sky would stay its clear, glassy blue, the shadows would creep feline over the grass, and then as the sun sank, the stone of the place would begin to exhale the heat of the whole long day. And in my dream, I knew exactly which day it was. I knew that today was the day of the apocalypse, today was 20 June 1996, the day the four of us first went to the manor, the day we met David.
Before the Ruins Victoria Gosling
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One long, hot summer Andy and her friends began a game that will take their whole lives to play out Andy believes that she has left her past far behind her. But when she gets a call from Peter’s mother to say he’s gone missing, she finds herself pulled into a search for answers. Bored and restless after their final school exams, Andy, Peter, Em and Marcus broke into a ruined manor house nearby and quickly became friends with the boy living there. Blond, charming and on the run, David’s presence was as dangerous as it was exciting. The story of a diamond necklace, stolen from the house fifty years earlier and perhaps still lost somewhere in the grounds inspired the group to buy a replica and play at hiding it, hoping to turn up the real thing along the way. But the game grew to encompass decades of resentment, lies and a terrible betrayal. Now, Andy’s search for Peter will unearth unimaginable secrets – and take her back to the people who still keep them. Perfect for fans of The Secret History, The Party and The Stranger’s Child An insightful and poignant novel about lost love, the power of friendship and whether missed chances are really gone forever
Victoria Gosling grew up in Wiltshire and studied at Manchester University and the University of Amsterdam. She has lived in London, Australia, Brazil, the Czech Republic and Berlin. Victoria is the founder of The Reader Berlin and organises The Berlin Writing Prize. @VictoriaReaderB
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The Exiles
New title
A novel of artists adrift in a time of war
Adrien Bosc
Translated by Frank Wynne A magical story of eccentrics and geniuses on a voyage of escape from Nazi-occupied Europe On 24 March, 1941, a converted cargo ship named the Capitaine Paul-Lemerle left Marseille, fleeing Vichy France and the devastation of the war. The ship was filled with two hundred refugees: immigrants from the East, exiled Spanish Republicans, Jews, stateless persons and decadent artists. Among them were Claude Lévi-Strauss, the painter Wifredo Lam, the writers Anna Seghers and André Breton, and the Russian revolutionary Victor Serge. As Adrien Bosc’s magical second novel follows the ship from Marseille to Casablanca to Martinique and on to New York, it tells an evocative story of migration, cultural crisis and the intellectual cost of the rise of fascism. The Exiles is a wonderful, charismatic voyage with some of Europe’s greatest minds.
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Adrien Bosc was born in Avignon in 1986. He is the founder of Éditions du sous-sol and the magazines Desports and Feuilleton, and works in Paris as a publisher. In 2014, he received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie Française for his first novel Constellation.
For readers of At the Existentialist Café, Soldiers of Salamis and The Order of the Day. One of Europe’s most talented young writers, Bosc’s previous novel sold 200,000 copies in France and won the Académie Française prize ‘Erudite and charming’ Vanity Fair
On Time and Water Andri Snær Magnason
New title
Translated by Lytton Smith
A unique approach to climate change that recalls W. G. Sebald Icelandic author and activist Andri Snær Magnason’s ‘Letter to the Future’, an extraordinary and moving eulogy for the lost Okjökull glacier, made global news and was shared by millions. Now he attempts to come to terms with the issues we all face in his new book On Time and Water. Magnason writes of the melting glaciers, the rising seas and acidity changes that haven’t been seen for 50 million years. These are changes that will affect all life on earth. Taking a path to climate science through ancient myths about sacred cows, stories of ancestors and relatives and interviews with the Dalai Lama, Magnason allows himself to be both personal and scientific. The result is an absorbing mixture of travel, history, science and philosophy.
Praise for The Casket of Time: ‘The love child of Chomsky and Lewis Carroll’ Rebecca Solnit ‘I loved this book so much – it is a cerebral tale, well told and unabashedly philosophical. It is dark, funny and grim.’ The New York Times
Andri Snær Magnason, master storyteller and environmental activist, is one of Iceland’s most celebrated writers. He has won the Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction, children’s fiction and non-fiction and his books have been translated into more than thirty languages. @AndriMagnason
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We crossed a bridge to enter Fripp Island, a luscious, jungled little thumbprint of land that contains every shade of green you could imagine, from almost-yellow to almost-black. We had to stop the car because an alligator was in the road before us. It was the first alligator I had ever seen and much uglier than I would have expected, its hide dull, dark, and textured, as warty as a toad. Several days later, I was dead.
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The House on Fripp Island
New title
Rebecca Kauffman
Two families on holiday and everyone’s hiding something – this is a book you’ll need to talk about The Dalys invite the Fords for a week at a luxurious house just off the coast of South Carolina. The mothers are childhood friends who’ve ended up in very different places. One family is wealthy, one isn’t. One family is happy, one isn’t. Everyone is up to something, but no one has quite guessed what the others are doing. While revelations from the past and present unfold, the book builds to a shocking event that will shake your sense of justice and leave you wanting to talk about crime and retribution. It’s a great book to pass on to a friend, but please don’t tell them too much. If you can’t wait, get in touch with us …
Praise for Rebecca Kauffman:
Rebecca Kauffman is originally from rural Ohio. She studied Classical Violin Performance at the Manhattan School of Music before receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. Her previous novels are Another Place You’ve Never Been and The Gunners. She currently lives in Virginia.
‘Kauffman so convincingly renders the affection between them that you accept each character’s foibles as readily as they do one another’s ... there’s so much generosity and spirit and humour.’ The New York Times ‘Compassionate and unexpectedly funny’ Elle
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This season we are continuing Viper’s inaugural year as the new home for crime and thrillers from Serpent’s Tail with three very different brilliant reads. Our first ever hardback is The Resident by David Jackson, bestselling author of Cry Baby, in which a serial killer stalks several families on a quiet street, accessing their homes through the shared attic space. The Knocks – winner of the Bath Novel Award from CWA Debut Dagger-shortlisted author Kate Simants – explores the dark underbelly of the care system. And we continue to champion Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Garry Disher, publishing his new police procedural Peace, the sequel to the critically acclaimed Bitter Wash Road. Always looking for the best and brightest in crime fiction, we are proud to introduce you to our latest books with bite. Miranda Jewess Senior Commissioning Editor, Viper
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The Knocks Kate Simants
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Winner of the 2019 Bath Novel Award, this is an immersive and heartrending thriller, set in the world of the foster system and forgotten children Two years ago, teenagers Rob and Paige broke into a house and stole only one thing: a necklace. No one knows why. And Paige hasn’t been seen since that night. Having spent her life in children’s homes and the foster system, no one cared enough to look for her. Now Rob is out of prison, and probation officer Wren Reynolds has been tasked with his rehabilitation. But Wren has her own reasons for taking on Rob as a client. Convinced that Rob knows what happened to Paige, and hiding a lifetime of secrets from her heavily pregnant wife, Wren’s obsession with finding the missing girl may tear her family apart …
‘A mesmerising tale of justice and redemption which will have you spellbound … one of the rising stars of crime fiction’ Trevor Woods, author of The Man on the Street ‘Immersive and compelling, authentic and raw’ S. E. Lynes, author of The Women
Kate Simants spent several years as an investigative undercover journalist for Channel 4 and the BBC. She was shortlisted for a CWA Debut Dagger for her first novel Lock Me In and won the UEA Literary Festival scholarship to study for an MA in Crime Fiction. She graduated with a Distinction. She lives near Bristol with her family. @katesboat
Crime fiction £8.99 B-format trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 597 6 400pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 742 8 August 2020 UK Com ex Can Exclusive Europe A
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‘Make no mistake, they are going to catch us. And when they do, they will lock us up and throw away the key. There is no going back.’
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The Resident David Jackson
New title
A gripping and highly commercial thriller for readers of M. J. Arlidge, Mark Billingham, Peter James and Sarah Hilary
YOU THINK YOU’RE ALONE. THINK AGAIN. Thomas Brogan is a serial killer, and he has nowhere left to hide. At least not until he finds an abandoned house at the end of a terrace on a quiet street. And when he discovers that he can access three other houses through the attic space, the real fun begins. Because the one thing that Brogan enjoys even more than killing, is playing games with his victims. And his new neighbours have more than enough dark secrets to make this game his best one yet …
‘Disturbing, blackly funny and completely compulsive … deliciously chilling’ Alex North, bestselling author of The Whisper Man ‘Dark and disturbing yet so absorbing. Jackson knows how to reel you in’ Mel Sherratt
David Jackson is the author of eight crime novels, including the bestseller Cry Baby. When not murdering fictional people, David spends his days as a university academic in his home city of Liverpool. @Author_Dave.
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Peace
New title
Garry Disher
The outstanding new novel from Australia’s King Of Crime Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He’s still new in town but his community work – welfare checks and a light touch – is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a vehicle and Brenda Flann entering the front bar of the pub without exiting her car, Hirsch’s life has been peaceful. Until he’s called to an incident on Kitchener Street, a strange and vicious attack that sickens the community. And when the Sydney police ask him to look in on a family living on a forgotten back road, it doesn’t look like a season of goodwill at all …
Crime fiction £8.99 B-format trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 512 9 384pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 699 5 October 2020 UK Com ex Can, ANZ Exclusive Europe
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Garry Disher has published fifty titles across multiple genres, and is best known as Australia’s King of Crime. He has won the Deutsche Krimi Preis three times, the Ned Kelly Award twice, and his novel The Sunken Road was nominated for the Booker Prize. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.
‘An uplifting book, an utterly compelling mystery with rare heart and humanity. If you enjoyed Jane Harper’s The Lost Man, this novel is for you.’ Dervla McTiernan, author of The Ruin ‘Disher is the gold standard for rural noir.’ Chris Hammer, author of Scrublands 978 1 78816 507 5 £8.99
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A Famished Heart
The Broken Ones
Bitter Wash Road
This Little Dark Place
Who We Were
‘A fabulous closed room mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end’ Denise Mina
‘Darkly atmospheric and haunting, it had me hooked from page one.’ Vanessa Savage
‘A superb chronicler of macho cop culture’ Sunday Times
‘Emotionally raw and compulsively readable’ Alice Blanchard
‘A wonderful writer of addictive, authentic Australian stories’ Liane Moriarty
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Selected Poems Langston Hughes
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with a foreword by Lemn Sissay
The essential poems of the man named by the New Yorker as ‘the poet laureate of black America’ For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. This edition is Hughes’s own selection of his work, and was first published in 1959. It includes all of his best known poems including ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’, ‘The Weary Blues’, ‘Song for Billie Holiday’, ‘Black Maria’, ‘Magnolia Flowers’, ‘Lunch in a Jim Crow Car’ and ‘Montage of a Dream Deferred’. A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is now seen as one of the great chroniclers of black American experience – and one of the great artists of the twentieth century.
Poetry £9.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 451 1 320pp October 2020 UK Com ex Can
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Langston Hughes was born in 1902. His poem ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ appeared in Crisis in 1921. In 1925, Hughes was awarded the first Prize for Poetry by Opportunity magazine for his poem ‘The Weary Blues’. He wrote poetry, short stories, song lyrics, essays, humour and plays and an autobiography, The Big Sea.
‘Langston Hughes, for me, was always the poet of the people.’ Claudia Rankine ‘Every time I read Langston Hughes I am amazed … Hughes, in his sermons, blues and prayers, has working for him the power and the beat of Negro speech and Negro music.’ James Baldwin
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Horace McCoy
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with an introduction by John Harvey
McCoy’s classic novel is a powerful story of ambition, desperation and determination in 1930s America The Great Depression led people to take desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money, dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. A lurid tale of dancing and desperation, Horace McCoy’s classic American novel captures the dark side of the 1930s.
‘An extraordinary achievement and every bit as shocking and moving today as it must have been for its original readers. The characters are both more, and less, than human, the writing is tersely perfect and the ending almost unbearably moving.’ Guardian Major new stage adaptation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, opening at London’s The Bridge Theatre from October 2020 to January 2021
Horace McCoy was born near Nashville, Tennessee, in 1897. His varied career included reporting and sports editing, acting as a bodyguard to a politician, doubling for a wrestler and writing for films and magazines. A founder of the celebrated Dallas Little Theatre, his novels include I Should Have Stayed Home and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. He died in 1955.
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Eat My Heart Out Zoe Pilger
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Zoe Pilger’s wildly funny debut novel, reissued as a Serpent’s Tail Classic Ann-Marie’s life has collapsed, and she’s blaming everyone but herself. Twenty-three, heartbroken, skint and furious, she’s convinced that love – sweet love! – is the answer to all of her problems. But then she meets an unlikely saviour in legendary feminist Stephanie Haight, for whom Ann-Marie becomes the first step in re-educating an entire generation out of their ironic detachment and into the welcoming arms of second-wave feminism. As Ann-Marie’s semi-consensual feminist awakening leads her from neo-burlesque pop-up strip clubs to ritual worship ceremonies summoning ancient power goddesses, Zoe Pilger spins around her heroine a fiercely clever and unapologetically wild satire for our narcissistic, hedonistic, post-postfeminist times.
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Zoe Pilger was born in 1984. Eat My Heart Out won a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award. It was shortlisted for a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in the US. Zoe is writing a quartet of novels, which is supported by The Society of Authors and Arts Council England. She lives in London.
‘The anti-Bridget Jones ... brutally funny’ Chris Kraus ‘Pilger might be the heiress to Angela Carter.’ Deborah Levy ‘Dead smart and gloriously, mercifully, snort-out-loud hilarious’ Dazed and Confused
Horse Poems
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Poems about horses by the world’s greatest poets Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of galloping together across open country. They provide entertaining antics when we’re bored and quiet understanding when we need it most. To poets in particular, these beloved creatures are the most wonderful muses, as they neigh, whicker and nuzzle, reflecting back at us our heartfelt tenderness and high spirits. Horse Poems offers a selection of verses in praise of the horse by some of the most celebrated poets of all time. The perfect gift for literary horse fans.
Renowned poets spanning a great range of eras and styles, all writing in praise of the horse. Including poems from Philip Larkin, Carol Ann Duffy, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Philip Sidney, Matsuo Basho, Louise Glück, Robert Browning and Ted Hughes, there should be something to please every equestrian.
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Satantango
László Krasznahorkai Translated by George Szirtes & Ottilie Mulzet
Krasznahorkai’s extraordinary first novel is back – and more devilish than ever In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias – long-thought dead – returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold.
Fiction £9.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 635 5 304pp eISBN: 978 1 78816 636 2 June 2020 UK Com ex Can
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László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the Best Translated Book Award in Fiction, twice, the International Booker Prize in 2015 for his oeuvre, and the 2019 National Book Award for his final novel, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming.
A newly revised and expanded translation of Krasznahorkai’s great early novel, on which Béla Tarr’s epic film of the same name was based ‘A modern masterpiece that manages to speak both of its time and to transcend it altogether’ Sunday Telegraph ‘A monster of a novel: compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating’ Guardian
Other books by László Krasznahorkai ‘Among our greatest living novelists’ Paris Review ‘László Krasznahorkai is one of the most original and powerful novelists around.’ Karl Ove Knausgaard ‘One of the most important – and eccentric – writers working today’ Hari Kunzru, Spectator
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With new paperback editions of Satantango and Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, all of Krasznahorkai’s major works are now available in Tuskar Rock’s striking series design. This also marks the first time that the Hungarian maestro’s great quartet – Satantango, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, The Melancholy of Resistance and War & War – have been published in matching editions. Together, they represent one of the great literary achievements of the last half-century.
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‘One of the great inventors of new forms in contemporary literature’ Adam Thirlwell, New York Review of Books
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Trust Exercise Susan Choi
New in paperback
The National Book Award-winning sensation and one of Barack Obama’s Books of the Year Both inventive and shocking, Trust Exercise became a sensation on publication in the USA for its timely insights into sex, power and the nature of abuse. Sarah and David are in love – the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of adulthood. At their performing arts school, the rules are made by the magnetic drama instructor Mr Kingsley, who initiates them into a dangerous game. Two decades on we learn that the real story of these teenagers’ lives is even larger and darker than we imagined, and the consequences have lasted a lifetime. Trust Exercise is a brilliant, unforgettable novel about what we lose, gain and never get over as we’re initiated into the mysteries of adulthood.
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Susan Choi is the author of five novels and was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award in 2010 and is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches at Yale and lives with her family in Brooklyn.
‘A Russian doll of a novel’ Daily Telegraph ‘Will leave you shaken to your very core’ Cosmopolitan ‘A devastatingly apt analysis of what men have gotten away with’ The New York Times
New in paperback
Travel Light, Move Fast
Virtuoso
‘This book is devastating. Machado is a sublime, phenomenal, breathtakingly good writer’ Daisy Johnson
‘Ceaselessly surprises, delights and devastates in unequal measure’ Richard E. Grant
‘Strikingly original ... a fine, fraught, strange novel’ Guardian
‘Bitingly funny and occasionally heartbreaking black humour’ The New York Times
‘Urgently political, deeply personal and engagingly spiritual’ Marlon James
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‘Serious intent and lacerating effect’ Man Booker International Prize judges’ citation
‘A splendid declaration of love to literature’ Elle
A powerful book about women, addiction, co-dependency and love
‘A breath of intellectual fresh air and badly needed’ Eimear McBride
‘A rich resurrection of a forgotten history’ The New York Times
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