The Invention of Everything Else

Completely original, one of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I've read in years

Dave Eggers

Samantha Hunt's writing is free of affectation and carries surprising conviction.

The New Yorker

A sophisticated pastiche of science fiction, fantasy, melodrama, and historical anecdote....It all adds up to a precocious math of human marvel.

Elle

Ingenious work of historical fiction

Marie Claire

Hunt presents a convincing portrayal of youthful confusion... [Her] gray, Chekhovian moments mark Hunt as a writer to watch.

Time Out New York

Dazzling

Vanity Fair

A brilliant evocation of the life of the inventor Nikola Tesla

Guardian

In language at once poetic and precise, Hunt sets the reader's sense of the "real world" gently askew: the result is a ravishing, utterly unique read.

Elle.com

Both intelligent and compassionate... admirably ambitious

Daily Telegraph

A fresh original voice....believable and hilarious... this is a literary novel that deserves a wide readership.. a real talent to watch

Sunday Express

Hunt's deft blend of sf elements and romantic subplots may remind readers of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, while her prose style and attention to historical detail are on a par with Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Hunt's greatest triumph, however, lies in her depiction of Tesla, who wavers between genius and madness with carefully controlled charm.

Library Journal

A fantastical story that engages the heart and mind, as Hunt pays tribute to the power of invention, and the enduring strength of love

Psychologies

Hunt has done a fine job of reanimating the dead and reawakening my curiosity about this odd, overlooked man... Hunt's prose is sylish and tasty and her observations wise and witty

Scotsman

Weird and wonderful debut novel

Red

Remarkable...Hunt wears her historical and scientific learning lightly

Financial Times

An ambitious conflation of fact and fiction

Literary Review

Samantha Hunt's fantasy comes closer than any biography to solving the riddle of Tesla's commercial and personal failings ... The Invention of Everything Else is perfect for nights spent in the wrong hotel, once your travel plans have, as usual, gone subtly awry

New Scientist

a fascinating blend of fact, fiction, history and dare I say, science fiction surrounding the weird and wonderful life of Nikola Tesla the acknowledged father of radio and AC electricity.

Dovegreyreader

her portrait of Tesla buzzes with vitality

Metro

This unusual novel skilfully interweaves the story of the eccentric inventor of radio and AC electricity with that of Louisa ... a compelling novel.

Emma Lee-Potter, Express