The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
Longlisted for the Booker Prize
'Books this good don't come along very often.' Maggie O'Farrell
'A magically beguiling work, a triumph.' Financial Times
'A thing of total joy .
Max Porter's first novel,
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, won the
Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and the BAMB Readers' Award, and was shortlisted for the
Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. His second novel,
Lanny, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has previously worked as a bookseller and editor and has also written
The Death of Francis Bacon, the short film
All of this Unreal Time and the pamphlet
It's Going to Be a Bright New Day. Max lives in Bath with his family.