Summary
A quirky, literary love story like no other, one that veers wildly from contemporary Britain to Soviet Russia to a bizarre but recognizable future, from one of the UK’s hottest young novelists…
Rachel and Jaime - their story isn’t simple. It might not even be their story.
Augustus Fate, a once-lauded novelist and now renowned recluse, is struggling with his latest creation. But when Jaime and Rachel stumble into his remote cottage, he spies opportunity, imprisoning them inside…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781685891916 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1685891918 |
| Author: | Sam Mills |
| Publisher: | Melville House Publishing |
| Imprint: | Melville House Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 140mm x 37mm |
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Critics Review
A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2025
A BookBrowse Best New Books Publishing February 2025
“Mills’ kaleidoscopic novel, like her earlier work The Quiddity of Will Self (2012), is an imaginative tour-de-force, one that never collapses under the weight of its hugely ambitious structure. In a breathtaking, captivating page-turner full of surprises and gloriously inventive narrative devices, Mills deftly demonstrates how enormously entertaining metafictional novels can be.” —Booklist STARRED review
“Her fluid command of each vastly different genre serves to highlight what stays the same in each—the strengths, faults, and deep bond of Rachel and Jaime. Readers will be impressed.” Publishers Weekly
“This time-hopping meta-fiction has the madcap energy of a Philip K. Dick story … Mills’s protagonists treat their absurd bind with absolute seriousness. Farce on the outside, tragedy within.” —The Times (London)
“If you are a fan of geeky, metafictional gameplay — and really, why wouldn’t you be — then Mills’s dazzlingly inventive genre-hopping caper will keep you pleasurably on your toes … a reckless disquisition on the reality-distorting consolations of fiction and story-telling … Mills’s vaulting ambition delivers huge brain-addling rewards.” —Daily Mail
About The Author
Sam Mills
Sam Mills is the author of The Quiddity of Will Self, along with three young adult novels, including the award-winning Blackout. Her memoir about being a carer, The Fragments of My Father, was published in 2020. Mills has written for a number of publications, including the Guardian, Independent, 3 AM and London Magazine. She is the co-founder of the independent press Dodo Ink and lives in London looking after her father and cat.
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