Adam Thirlwell has written the story of his suffering body. He has also written the story of his suffering family. And he has seen that both are in fact the same, which he tells in an audacious and searing book.
Emmanuel Carrère
About Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. The author of four previous novels, his work has been translated into thirty languages. His essays appear in the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, and he is an advisory editor of the Paris Review. His awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has twice been selected by Granta as one of their Best of Young British Novelists.
