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Jenni Fagan

Praise for The Delusions

There is wondrously clever, imaginative and slyly satirical world building here. Metaphysical splendours too: as night falls, "galaxies unfurl" and all newcomers stop, awestruck, to gaze at Earth below… What is u ...

The Times

A witty metaphysical satire about what happens when the processes that help souls pass on begin to fail…The Delusions fizzes with impatience, invention and humour. Fagan’s targets are exactly what we’d hop ...

M John Harrison, Guardian

A scorching meditation on being human set in the unforgiving realm of a "godless" afterlife. ... In the tradition of Dante’s Inferno and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, it is a caustic treatise on the morta ...

Financial Times

There is wondrously clever, imaginative and slyly satirical world building here. Metaphysical splendours too: as night falls, "galaxies unfurl" and all newcomers stop, awestruck, to gaze at Earth below… What is u ...

The Times

A witty metaphysical satire about what happens when the processes that help souls pass on begin to fail…The Delusions fizzes with impatience, invention and humour. Fagan’s targets are exactly what we’d hop ...

M John Harrison, Guardian

A scorching meditation on being human set in the unforgiving realm of a "godless" afterlife. ... In the tradition of Dante’s Inferno and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, it is a caustic treatise on the morta ...

Financial Times

There is wondrously clever, imaginative and slyly satirical world building here. Metaphysical splendours too: as night falls, "galaxies unfurl" and all newcomers stop, awestruck, to gaze at Earth below… What is u ...

The Times

A witty metaphysical satire about what happens when the processes that help souls pass on begin to fail…The Delusions fizzes with impatience, invention and humour. Fagan’s targets are exactly what we’d hop ...

M John Harrison, Guardian

A scorching meditation on being human set in the unforgiving realm of a "godless" afterlife. ... In the tradition of Dante’s Inferno and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, it is a caustic treatise on the morta ...

Financial Times

Books by Jenni Fagan

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Articles featuring Jenni Fagan

How I wrote it: Jenni Fagan on Luckenbooth

How I wrote it: Jenni Fagan on Luckenbooth

Spanning 100 years and nine floors of an Edinburgh tenement building, Luckenbooth is dazzling readers with its literary ambition and wickedly good storytelling. Jenni Fagan tells us about the 20 years and wall-spanning plans she poured into her third novel.
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