The Book of Goose

'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson 'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining' <em>New York Times</em> 'Wonderfully strange and alive' Jon McGregor

<strong>A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of <em>Where Reasons End</em></strong>

Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnes, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised - the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes is free to tell her story.

As children in a backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves - until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnes on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.

A dark, ravishing tale winding from the rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnes can live without her past. <em>The Book of Goose</em> is a story of intimacy and obsession, friendship and rivalry perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante, Ottessa Moshfegh and Kamila Shamsie.

<strong>'Beguiling ... A shimmering, unsettling tale of exploitation and manipulation'<em> Daily Mail</em></strong>

<strong>'Brilliant ... A novel of deceptions and cruelty' <em>Spectator</em></strong>

<strong>'For all its surface lushness, this is a novel of meticulous philosophical inquiry...resonant with echoes of... <em>My Brilliant Friend</em>, as well Elizabeth Strout... electrifying' <em>Observer</em></strong>