The Wreck

Satisfyingly detailed and juicy… an utter treat – Amy Liptrot, author of THE OUTRUNLizzy Stewart’s characters feel to me like friends. I want to have a drink with them, hug them, shake them…. The Wreck is a tender and wise portrait of love and friendship that ponders with an astonishingly light touch big questions to do with who we are and how we live. She’s done it again! – Chloë Ashby, author of SECOND SELFI fell hopelessly in love with The Wreck. Lizzy Stewart has created the most inviting, appealing world for her endlessly compelling characters, whose charm and flaws kept me glued to their dramas and entanglements throughout, and left me utterly bereft at the end. A beautiful, funny, clever, insightful book about friendship, desire and idealism, that tackles the great universal question of how to live. – Lisa OwensWhat a rare treat to read a graphic novel that deals with love and sex from a sophisticated female perspective. Propulsive and addictive, The Wreck is a dream house filled with deep truths about relationships and yearning for a bigger, freer life, and I wanted to inhabit it forever. – Astrid Goldsmith, author of THE CRYSTAL VASEImpressive, immersive and full of knotty psychological insight – Joff Winterhart, author of DEAR HISTORIANA one-of-a-kind novel: a perfectly-judged story of friendship and mistakes, love, intimacy and the passing of time. I adored every page of it. – Ana Kinsella, author of FRIDA SLATTERY AS HERSELFLizzy Stewart has done it again: written and drawn another wonderful book. The Wreck is incredibly intimate and domestic but also astonishingly universal. – Claire Fuller, author of UNSETTLED GROUNDFriendship, love and a gorgeous old house. A beautiful story beautifully told. I loved inhabiting The Wreck – Jessica Stanley, author of CONSIDER YOURSELF KISSEDNo other writer or artist can pinpoint the queasy interdependence of class and the arts in England with such nauseous accuracy, only to pull the rug out from under us with tenderness – Joanna Walsh, author of Amateurs!I adored this… [an] intimate tale of class, envy, love and friendship – Madeleine Feeny * Bookseller 10 titles not to miss in April *

Lizzy Stewart is an author based in London. She writes and illustrates books for both children and adults. In 2017 her picture book There’s a Tiger in the Garden won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and a World Illustration Award. Her debut full-length novel Alison was published in 2022. She teaches Illustration at Goldsmiths, University of London and has also taught courses at the Tate and on behalf of the National Gallery.