The Ruiners

‘Ellena Savage is savagely smart and talented’ -- <B>Rachel Kushner, author of <I>Creation Lake</I></B> ‘Either a genius or a witch, or my dream coupling of the two’   -- <B>Rita Bullwinkel, author of <I>Headshot</I></B> ‘I read The Ruiners with an ever more intense combination of excitement, compassion and Schadenfreude. With a scathing wit and genuine narrative flair, Ellena Savage has written a contemporary parable about gentrification, class, climate change and the need for political action in a society that seems to leave it less and less agency.’ -- <B>Vincenzo Latronico, author of <I>Perfection</I></B> ‘The Ruiners is a thrilling, stylish novel of ambition, about intellectual and romantic and political ambition: how it shapes us and we shape, or fail to shape, our world with it in turn. It's the rare contemporary novel that feels both timeless and newsfeed relevant ... but it was the book's sneakily profound political critique, which is of course inseparable from those characters and their relationships, that impressed me most. Is there any hope for us? is not a question we can answer, and this book does it brilliantly.’ -- <B>Lauren Olyer, author of <I>No Judgement</I></B> ‘Ruiners is a riot – a book full of wild energy and uncompromising wit, with a huge heart. Like all my favourite writers, Savage lets no one off the hook but has compassion for everyone. I loved it.’ -- <B>Octavia Bright, author of <I>This Ragged Grace</I></B>