Wandering Souls

‘I raced through it. Beautiful, brilliant, unflinching’ R. F. KUANG

‘This lean, affecting book packs a mighty punch and heralds a dazzling new talent’ OBSERVER

‘Powerful … a bold debut that breaks new ground’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope through a long-overdue portrayal of Vietnamese life in the UK’ OCEAN VUONG

‘A heartbreaking novel … a deeply affecting reckoning with history’ i-D MAGAZINE

‘A poignant saga with its grieving, beating heart firmly in the right place, and heralds the arrival of an ambitious and promising new talent’ GUARDIAN

‘A powerful story of courage, love and unwavering hope’MARIE CLAIRE

‘Something special – a polyvocal novel, an essay on inherited trauma and a quiet metafiction about telling stories we don’t own’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Meticulously researched and beautifully imagined … deeply affecting’ TASH AW

‘As relevant now as it ever was. You won’t get through this without your heart breaking’ AnOther

‘Deeply moving and deeply generous … I cried reading it’ YARA RODRIGUES FOWLER

‘A searing, sweeping and intimate story of such heart and scope’ RACHEL LONG

‘Historical epic Wandering Souls … [offers] a very different take on the immigrant experience’ VOGUE

‘An enormously evocative portrait of dispossession’ FINANCIAL TIMES

Cecile Pin grew up in Paris and New York City before moving to London at 18 to study philosophy at University College London, followed by an MA at King’s College London. She is currently editorial assistant at Jonathan Cape. She also writes for Bad Form Review, was longlisted for its Young Writer’s prize and is a London Writers Awards 2021 winner.