The Wreck

[A] houseshare horror story… Stewart is brilliant at capturing the glorious intimacies of close friendships as well as their pitfalls

Killian Fox, Observer *Graphic Novel of the Month*

Glorious... it perfectly captures the disaffection and disappointments of early mid-life... beautifully nuanced... If you think you don’t read graphic novels, Lizzy Stewart will make you reconsider.

Sam Baker, The Shift

‘Satisfyingly detailed and juicy, it’s an utter treat and I will be giving a copy to my best friend’

Amy Liptrot, author of THE OUTRUN

A novel I have recently loved to bits. By the inimitable Lizzy Stewart... Friendship, ambition, class, houses, the 1970s - 1990s, love, and coloured illustrations, of course. She’s so damn good

Jessie Burton, author of THE MINIATURIST

The Wreck is a completely magnetic piece of work. In her story of two couples, Stewart explores class, desire, friendship, ambition and the endless mysteries of human behaviour with fearless clarity

Sophie Elmhirst, author of MAURICE AND MARALYN

Lizzy 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 SELF

A beautiful, poignant study of friendship as it shifts from light to shade and back again over a lifetime. Lizzy Stewart’s characters are so finely drawn that we see and feel their every move. The Wreck is a brilliantly insightful tale of careful manners and caustic undercurrents, all wrapped up in the disheveled tastefulness of the country house. Utterly charming, with a thrillingly critical edge.

Alex Hyde

Friendship, love and a gorgeous old house. A beautiful story beautifully told. I loved inhabiting The Wreck

Jessica Stanley, author of CONSIDER YOURSELF KISSED

I 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 Owens