Idiopathy

Resumen del libro

A novel of love, narcissism and ailing cattle Katherine has given up trying to be happy. Her cynical wit repels the people she wants to attract, and attracts the people she knows she should repel. Her ex Daniel, meanwhile, isn't sure that he loves his new girlfriend.

But somehow not telling her he loves her has become synonymous with telling her that he doesn't love her, meaning that he has to tell her he loves her just to maintain the status quo. When their former friend Nathan returns from a stint in a psychiatric ward to find that his mother has transformed herself into bestselling author and Twitter sensation 'Mother Courage' - Katherine, Daniel and Nathan decide to meet to heal old wounds. But will a reunion end well? Almost certainly not.

Both scathing invective on a self-obsessed generation and moving account of love and loneliness, 'Idiopathy' skewers everything from militant environmentalists to self-help quackery and announces the arrival of a savagely funny talent.

Biografía del autor

Sam Byers (Norwich, Inglaterra, 1979) está graduado por la Universidad de East Anglia en Escritura Creativa. Colabora habitualmente en Granta, The Times Literary Supplement y The New York Times. Su primera novela, Idiopatía, finalista del Costa First Novel Award, se ha convertido en un fenómeno de ventas y crítica en Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, y será publicada próximamente en doce países.