‘A bitter-sweet pang in my heart’ Monique Roffey
‘A beautiful book. Insanely romantic and utterly convincing’ Julie Myerson
‘A wonderful and inventive novel, sorrowful and hopeful in equal measure. It was a true pleasure to read’ Miranda Cowley Heller
In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados.
‘A FIERCELY INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER’ PAULA HAWKINS
‘WRITTEN PRE-COVID – GRIPPING, SCARY AND PERSUASIVE’ IAN RANKIN
‘THE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF’ A.J. FINN
‘GRIPPING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. WHAT A DEBUT!’ SARAH PEARSE, author of The Sanatorium
‘BRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE’ JENNY COLGAN
‘Stephenson’s reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved’ Sunday Times
‘His most visionary, and timely, book yet’ Chicago Review of Books
‘Absorbing speculative fiction’ Guardian
*WINNER OF THE 2023 FRED KERNER BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS*
*FINALIST FOR THE 2023 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE*
Grief is like an inside joke: you have to have been there to really get it.
‘Devastating, deceptive and darkly funny’ SARAH WINMAN
‘It had me holding my breath!’ MARIAN KEYES
‘A stupendous novel… complicated, dark, funny and very human’ FERN BRITTON
‘A compellingly crafted, darkly funny and compulsive read, full of twists’ RACHEL JOYCE
**Pre-order the paperback of Bella Mackie’s latest hilarious novel, WHAT A WAY TO GO, now**
‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN
‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES
‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
*WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE MONTH*
Paris, 1891 Laura is living on the streets, far from the American Prairies where she was born. When rescued by the entrancing aerialists, Ena and Auguste Gaudron, she soon finds herself ensconced in the family hot air balloon business, and offered the chance to learn how to fly.
‘Hilarious… Fiery phrases spit and crackle. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs… a very funny book’ Sunday Times
‘Thought-provoking, timely, and extremely funny’ Metro
‘An absolute *blinder* … so so funny and sexy. So excited now to read everything by Crystal Jeans’ Caroline O’Donoghue, author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature
‘Unmissable’ STYLIST
‘A really gripping read’ TIMES RADIO
*JOANNA GLEN’S LATEST NOVEL MAYBE, PERHAPS, POSSIBLY IS OUT NOW*
‘So beautiful I almost couldn’t bear it, and so moving I was reading through tears’ STACEY HALLS
‘Uniquely witty, beautifully observed, intricately woven’ MIRANDA HART
‘A truly glorious life-affirming book, in which love, hope and friendship trump sorrow’ DINAH JEFFERIES
‘Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief’ SARAH WATERS
‘Beguilingly clever, very sexy and seriously frightening’ GUARDIAN
‘Atmospheric, sexy, creepy…totally addictive’ KATE DAVIES, author of In At The Deep End
‘A gloriously over-the-top queer romp’ I PAPER
