Matrix

Visionary leader, queer lover, 12th-century writer … the life of Marie de France is triumphantly reimagined in an assertively modern novel about female ambition and creativity… a highly distinctive novel of great vigour and boldness. From mystical visions that may or may not be divine, to the earthy business of abbey pigs, diseases and account books, Groff does it all with purpose and panache * Guardian *Groff’s writing is muscular and precise, her themes wildly resonant. Women are dismissed and contained, subject to misogynist attacks and abuse, but gain power collectively - “alone, together”. Shockingly, this message is as poignant today as it was, perhaps, 800 years ago * Sunday Times *A dazzlingly clever tale … gorgeously precise prose, always elegantly weighted and perfectly economical * The Times *Pitch-perfect * Telegraph *This is a remarkable novel: unusual, profound, transcendental * Evening Standard *It’s a breathtaking novel * Financial Times *A thrillingly vivid, adventurous story about women and power that will blow readers’ minds. Left me gasping. – Emma DonoghueFascinating, beguiling, vivid – Marian Keyes on TwitterLuminous, divine, her masterpiece – Daisy JohnsonAn audacious piece of storytelling, full of passion, wisdom and magic – Sarah Waters

Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and two story collections, including Florida. Winner of The Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, she has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and her books have been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, where she and her husband own the independent bookstore The Lynx.