Sympathy

Alice becomes fixated on a writer whose life has parallels with her own. As fact and fiction begin to blur, the relationship between the women exposes lies and sexual encounters. Three families collide as Alice learns that the swiftest answer to the question where do we come from? can be found online. This first great Instagram novel is an astute take on efforts to connect in the digital age.

About the author

Olivia Sudjic was born in London in 1988. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University where she was awarded the E.G. Harwood English Prize and made a Bateman Scholar. She started writing her first novel, Sympathy, in 2014.

Summary

An electrifying novel of blood ties, online identities, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age.

Foreword

Hailed as 'the first great Instagram novel' - the debut of 2017 that everyone is talking about, from one of the most exciting young British novelists

Product details

• Authors: Olivia Sudjic, Sudjic Olivia
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.04.2018
• EAN: 9780993506260
• ISBN: 978-0-9935062-6-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary