Awake Awake
the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Elmet
$46.80
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2026
Summary
‘An incredible achievement, a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I’ve read before’ - Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee
What if you can no longer trust your memories?
Mary is struggling with her memory. She does not have too few recollections but too many, including some that are downright absurd. She has many memories of her childhood: going to parties and on school trips, walks with her father and family dinners. She rem…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399826969 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399826964 |
| Author: | Fiona Mozley |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 158mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
An incredible achievement, a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I’ve read before … every character and storyline could be its own novel and yet they come together so thunderously and convincingly … It blew me away * Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee *
A unique, visionary novel about the toll of memory and the power and fragility of the human heart and mind. Fiona Mozley gives a masterclass in the novel form, showing just how much room for invention we still have. I couldn’t put it down * Kim Sherwood, author of Testament *
A warm, kindly and beautifully written novel about growing up in a family and in history, about inconvenient memory and haunted repression * Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall *
A stunning jewel of a novel. In crisply evoked scenes, Mozley brings to life all the peril and appetite of childhood friendship, set against the changing political climate of the early twenty-first century. It is a book in which the past lives on in the present, in which history itself proves skittish and irreducible. It is, finally, a gorgeous testament to the fierce bonds that connect us when we are young and the memories that shape not only who we were once, but who we become * Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves *
All the ingredients are present for a rich and compelling novel * Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday Times *
Introspective and intelligent * Irish Times *
A fascinating novel about our tenuous sense of self, friendship, and more * Forbes, Most Anticipated “Weird Girl Lit” for 2026 *
An unforgettable inquiry into the nature of memory * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *
About The Author
Fiona Mozley
FIONA MOZLEY is the author of two previous novels, Elmet and Hot Stew. She is the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award and the Polari Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Ondaatje Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Women’s Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Edinburgh.
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