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Awake Awake

the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Elmet

Fiona Mozley

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English
John Murray
02 June 2026
'An incredible achievement, a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I've read before' Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee
'A unique, visionary novel about the toll of memory and the power and fragility of the human heart and mind. Fiona Mozley gives a masterclass in the novel form' Kim Sherwood, author of Testament

Mary is struggling with her memory. She does not have too few recollections but too many, including some that are downright absurd. She has many memories of her childhood: going to parties and on school trips, walks with her father and family dinners. She remembers world events too: the falling of the Twin Towers and the Iraq War. But the most concerning memories she has are about her Jewish grandfather and his role in the death of Adolf Hitler. She feels sure - almost completely sure - that what she has been told can't be true, that she must have imagined the whole thing. But there is a doubt.

To decipher fact from fiction, Mary goes back over her life, sorting through her childhood and adolescence with her three friends in York, through an adulthood accustomed to tragedy. Guided by her family and friends, Mary attempts to figure out what is real, both in history and her own life, all the while wondering if her mind has conjured everything.
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Imprint:   John Murray
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 232mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   380g
ISBN:   9781399826976
ISBN 10:   1399826972
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

FIONA MOZLEY is the author of two previous novels, Elmet and Hot Stew. She is the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award and the Polari Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Ondaatje Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Women's Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Edinburgh.

Reviews for Awake Awake: the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Elmet

An incredible achievement, a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I've read before . . . every character and storyline could be its own novel and yet they come together so thunderously and convincingly . . . It blew me away * Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee * A unique, visionary novel about the toll of memory and the power and fragility of the human heart and mind. Fiona Mozley gives a masterclass in the novel form, showing just how much room for invention we still have. I couldn't put it down * Kim Sherwood, author of Testament * A warm, kindly and beautifully written novel about growing up in a family and in history, about inconvenient memory and haunted repression * Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall *


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