Imaginary Forces

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE DISCOVERIES AWARD 'With shades of Patricia Highsmith, Imaginary Forces is a cut above' JENNIE GODFREY 'A compelling debut, made all the more memorable by its brilliantly flawed narrator' JOANNA MILLER 'Seductive and addictive. Utterly singular' ABIGAIL DEAN 'A dazzling success of a novel' LORI INGLIS HALL Imaginary Forces is a masterful debut novel that is tender, unsettling and completely intoxicating. Your new debut obsession for 2027. Robin is unreliable, unstable and utterly devoted to his oldest friend Henry. So when Henry's beloved mother - the novelist Marian Finch - dies unexpectedly, Robin is there to pick up the pieces. Henry comes into possession of an antiquarian bookshop and there - for a time - they build a life together. But grief can send us down unexpected paths. For Henry, it leads him to the theory of multiple universes and to Yolanda, a brilliant scientist who can help him understand it. Robin and Yolanda have three things in common: they are in love with the same man, they despise each other, and they are oblivious to the fact that Henry is spiralling into a dangerous obsession that will irrevocably change them all. Suffused with yearning, obsession and addiction, Imaginary Forces is a luminous portrait of love in its many forms and just how destructive it can be.