Henry Henry

Wonderful... This book needs to be read right now by as many people as possible

Brandon Taylor, author of The Late Americans

Carnal and precise, a challenging taxonomy of familial and personal failure that Bratton renders without tidiness or judgment

Raven Leilani, author of Luster

I tore through Henry Henry in two days. A thrillingly imaginative new vision for Shakespeare’s Henriad – witty in its narrative parallels and deliciously realist in its resetting. You will come away from this book changed

Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time

Irreverent, immersive, scathingly funny, with a deep emotional undercurrent that pulls you out unexpectedly into heart-wrenching territory. Henry Henry is a brilliantly glinting and twisted debut

Seán Hewitt, author of All Down Darkness Wide

Comic and biting

Hero, *Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2024*

Fun... Bratton has a sharp eye for the absurdities of the white-saviour ex-public-schoolboy. And there’s a keen sense of the aching fugue of one’s early twenties

Telegraph

Bratton executes the project sharply, with humour and poignancy… He can really write

Prospect

Dark and gripping… I couldn’t put it down

Daily Mail

With this reimagining, Bratton has created a marvelously detailed world of supernumerary aristocrats, as rich, toxic and wild as the best entries in the the Real Housewives franchise

New York Times

Darkly humorous

Stylist

One of the most exciting new novels I’ve read in the past couple of months

Financial Times

Allen Bratton observes social and emotional detail with a shocking, thrilling level of precision and wisdom. This book bounds between the surreal and the heartrending, telling a story which is beautiful and desolate and wildly funny all at once. It's sexy, compassionate, uncommonly imaginative: I've never read anything quite like it.

Oisín McKenna, author of Evenings and Weekends

Henry Henry is a novel of sharp and uncompromising insight, told with wit and incredible empathy. I found it moving, often unsparing, and always deeply enjoyable - all the things a novel should be

Julia Armfield, author of Private Rites

This novel sent me into such a frenzy that I started recommending it to people before I’d even finished it

Best Books of 2024, The London Magazine

If you know the originals, you’ll be enchanted by this clever adaptation. If you don’t, your enjoyment won’t be dampened at all, for the story Bratton tells is full of humour and poignancy, and his characters feel real and very much alive

Prospect, *Books of the Year*