Katherine Carlyle

"KATHERINE CARLYLE left me stunned and amazed. Thomson's ability to create a world that feels entirely original and untouched by any other mind is at full strength in this strange and haunting book. The story proceeds with perfect logic from mystery to mystery, and takes the reader with it, unable to stop reading or guess where it will go next. The title character is utterly convincing, and her quest expresses with great clarity and power the strangeness of her origins. It's a masterpiece." --Philip Pullman, author of the best-selling His Dark Materials trilogy

"Written with the verve and detail of a spy novel, sleek and oddly honest, this is the fascinating story of Katherine Carlyle who mysteriously decides that instead of university and a privileged life she will erase her identity and much of her emotions and go untraceably to the most remote settlement of the Russian north. She is not seeking love. She is determined to have abandoned it." --James Salter, author of All That Is

"Smart, stylish, inventive, and always entertaining, Rupert Thomson displays enormous range as a novelist. His prose is consistently sharp, his ideas consistently intriguing. I would read any book that Thomson wrote." --Lionel Shriver, best-selling author of Big Brother and We Need to Talk About Kevin

"Rupert Thomson's twilight worlds have long enchanted many readers, and this road trip through a snow dome of mesmeric hallucinations is Thomson at his best." --Richard Flanagan, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North

"If the mind best comprehends the heart through metaphor, what new ways of imagining ourselves and our loves are offered by technologies earlier undreamt of? This is the question Rupert Thomson seeks to answer in this stealthy, intelligent, surreptitiously affective novel. With a narrative that moves from the sophisticated milieux of Rome and Berlin to the startling lower reaches of the Arctic Circle, delivered in prose that is spare, cinematic and masterfully controlled, KATHERINE CARLYLE is at once seductively contemporary and suggestively fable-like: Frozen for grown-ups." --Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch

"This riveting and visionary story haunted me long after I finished the last page. KATHERINE CARLYLE is an extraordinary novel." --Deborah Moggach, best-selling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel