Sympathy

The electric debut novel from one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023, and the acclaimed author of Asylum Road 'A mind-bending novel that skilfully depicts the bizarre interplay of technology and intimacy' Claire-Louise Bennett 'Alice Through the Looking Glass for the Instagram generation' Observer ____________ At twenty-three, Alice Hare arrives in New York looking for a place to call home. Instead she finds Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer, who she begins to follow online, fixated from afar and increasingly convinced that this stranger's life holds a mirror to her own. But as Alice closes in on her 'internet twin', fictional and real lives begin to blur, leaving a tangle of lies, blood ties and sexual encounters that cannot be erased. 'Addictive' Refinery29 'The Talented My Ripley for the 21st century' Vice UK 'A smart story of obsession... exquisite' Guardian 'Filled with explosive intelligence and dark humour... both beautiful and raw' Elle

Olivia Sudjic was born in London in 1988. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University where she was awarded the E.G. Harwood English Prize and made a Bateman Scholar. She started writing her first novel, Sympathy, in 2014.