Asylum Road

Anya and Luke are a couple who drive from London to coastal Provence. When they return, Anya begins to change, and the past she sought to contain resurfaces. The book is about the many borders governing our lives and what happens when they break down.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 20 January 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

An eerily familiar reflection of our current moment, this novel continues to haunt me long after I've turned the last page. Natasha Brown's I Paper Books of the Year is a phenomenal book that has captured the hearts of readers worldwide. Daisy Johnson's A Brilliant, Scalding Novel is a brilliant, scalding novel that is sharp, intricately layered, and impossible to forget. Megan Hunter's Stunning is beautifully written and deeply unsettling.

Bookseller, Editor's Choice, CHOSEN AS A 2021 BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR BY Observer, Independent, Financial Times, Evening Standard, Grazia, Stylist, Elle, The National, Five Books, and Buro. A couple drives from London to coastal Provence. Anya is preoccupied with what she feels is a relationship on the verge; unequal, precarious. Luke, reserved, stoic, gives away nothing. As the sun sets one evening, he proposes, and they return to London engaged. But planning a wedding does little to settle Anya's unease. As a child, she escaped from Sarajevo, and the idea of security is as alien now as it was then. When social convention forces Anya to return, she begins to change. The past she sought to contain for as long as she can remember resurfaces, and the hot summer builds to a startling climax.

Lean, sly, and unsettling, Asylum Road is about the many borders governing our lives: between men and women, assimilation and otherness, nations, families, order and chaos. What happens, and who do we become, when they break down?

Weight: 190g
Dimension: 129 x 366 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526617408