'100 pages in, I was thinking, "Why bother with anything else? Why bother with lunch?"' GuardianĪt the Travelodge bar near Waterloo bridge, the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls meets the disgraced poet Solomon Wiese, and hears the story of his spectacular fall from grace - a story that will take the entire night to tell. 'One of the wittiest, sharpest, cruellest critiques of literary culture I've ever read' Independent I haven't been so excited by a debut novel in a long time' Luke Kennard 'Beautiful, intricately humane, and gut-wrenchingly funny. Reading it felt like overhearing the most exhilarating, funny, mean conversation imaginable - which is to say it made me extremely happy and I dreaded it ending' Megan Nolan An extraordinary debut novel from an award-winning poet, about poets, plagiarism, love, technology, feuds and affairs, cancellation and revenge, and how writing really does alter reality
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