Agnes Lives! by Hallie Elizabeth Newton - ISBN: 9780241794098
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She wants to die before spin class, but who will help?
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    208 pages

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    1 December 2026

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Summary

Agnes Maurer has a plan. Before tomorrow’s spin class, she will find someone willing to kill her.

New York City, 2014: a place of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbags and, of course, existential despair. As Agnes wipes away the sweat from her early-morning SoulCycle she resolves that before her next lesson she will find someone happy to murder her. Over the course of the following twenty-four hours, as she moves from apartment to office, from bar to rave, she scrolls f…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241794098
ISBN-10:0241794099
Author:Hallie Elizabeth Newton
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Viking
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:1 December 2026
Weight:500g
Dimensions:204mm x 132mm x 25mm
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Critics Review

An astonishing debut as mesmerizing as it is unnerving – Joyce Carol OatesUnsettling, compelling, mysterious and also, well, so fun to read. Newton’s first novel is marvelous Hallie Newton writes like nobody else: deeper, sharper, truer, utterly without fear. This is the best debut I’ve read in forever – David LipskyA delcious tour-de-force

About The Author

Hallie Elizabeth Newton

Hallie Elizabeth Newton was born in Mississippi. She received her first screenplay credit for At Any Price, released by Sony Picture Classics. In 2016, she received the Goldwater Fellowship in Creative Writing from New York University. Her short story “Man Made” won first prize for fiction in Columbia Journal’s 2020 Winter Contest. She lives between New York and the Deep South.

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