PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. The author of three 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.
A book filled with imaginative leaps, brave decisions and tiny details that give delight. -- Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn A landmark - precisely because it's so deeply embedded in our history and is so unthinkably original. -- Edmund White, author of The Joy of Gay Sex I am utterly obsessed by Adam Thirlwell's dazzling, effervescent The Future Future. More epic than The Favourite, more vivid than Marie Antoinette, his prose sandblasts the dust off history, revealing the untold stories of real women - raw, sexy, funny and glinting with life. The Future Future is a parachute in time, both modern and timeless, unflinching and hilarious. Mesmerising. I'm transfixed. -- Polly Stenham, author of That Face The Future Future is Adam Thirlwell's best novel - but it's also the best novel anyone else has written anywhere for many years. Daring, funny, powerful and deeply imaginative - asking profound questions about the nature of revolution, about the rules of history and power, and about the strange times we find ourselves in. -- Daniel Kehlmann, author of Measuring the World In The Future Future, Adam Thirlwell considers the celestial and the political on the same plane, creating wondrous new ways of seeing history, nature, friendship and time. He weaves together so many wisps of reality, and the result is a radically beautiful new novel that is funny, touching, memorable and bright. -- Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour This is a breathtaking book, one that constantly surprises. It makes you think and, in a delicious combination, it makes you laugh. Set amidst the turbulence of ideas and movements that sped across salons, countries and continents in the latter part of the 18th century, it tumbles that revolution into one of our own. Its heroine, Celine, has an aura of innocence but she's also a thoroughly modern woman, polymorphous in her sexuality, a winningly talented creator of networks of resistance in a world where the power relations between the sexes are as brutal as our own. -- Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad, and Sad
