The Library of Leaving
‘Maybe it shouldn’t surprise me that August became a writer. He’d told me all kinds of stories – ‘I love you’ for one …’
‘Maybe it shouldn’t surprise me that August became a writer. He’d told me all kinds of stories – ‘I love you’ for one …’
‘Maybe it shouldn’t surprise me that August became a writer. He’d told me all kinds of stories – ‘I love you’ for one …’
‘Devasting’ SARA COLLINS
‘Beautiful … a stunning debut’ CHRISTIE WATSON
‘A thrilling, mesmerising tale of destiny and betrayal’ CECILE PIN
‘Haunting … instantly transportive’ FRANCES CHA
AN ELLE MOST ANTICIPATED READ OF 2026.
A stunning, page-turning love story of family and fate from the author of the acclaimed memoir, Inferno.
‘Devasting’ SARA COLLINS
‘Beautiful … a stunning debut’ CHRISTIE WATSON
‘A thrilling, mesmerising tale of destiny and betrayal’ CECILE PIN
‘Haunting … instantly transportive’ FRANCES CHA
AN ELLE MOST ANTICIPATED READ OF 2026.
A stunning, page-turning love story of family and fate from the author of the acclaimed memoir, Inferno.
‘Devasting’ SARA COLLINS
‘Beautiful … a stunning debut’ CHRISTIE WATSON
‘A thrilling, mesmerising tale of destiny and betrayal’ CECILE PIN
‘Haunting … instantly transportive’ FRANCES CHA
AN ELLE MOST ANTICIPATED READ OF 2026.
A stunning, page-turning love story of family and fate from the author of the acclaimed memoir, Inferno.
‘Chilling’ FINANCIAL TIMES
‘Tom Ripley, eat your heart out’ NPR
‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN
A chilling, captivating novel about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charming, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.
‘SPIKY, WITTY’ PANDORA SYKES
‘FUNNY, PACY’ GUARDIAN
‘CHAOTIC, SNARKY, VERY FUNNY’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘AN ABSOLUTELY WILD RIDE’ INDEPENDENT
A propulsive novel about music, coming of age and the cost of fame, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones and the Six.
‘The secrets simmer in this atmospheric, powerful novel’ KATIE BISHOP
‘You won’t be able to put it down’ RUFI THORPE
‘Impressive and unsettling’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ECONOMIST
‘Engrossing even as it horrifies’ BIG ISSUE
‘Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’LOS ANGELES TIMES
‘Impressive and unsettling’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ECONOMIST
‘Engrossing even as it horrifies’ BIG ISSUE
‘Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’LOS ANGELES TIMES
‘Impressive and unsettling’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ECONOMIST
‘Engrossing even as it horrifies’ BIG ISSUE
‘Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’LOS ANGELES TIMES
A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspenseabout the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by the legendary author ‘who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers’ (New York Times Magazine)
A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspenseabout the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by the legendary author ‘who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers’ (New York Times Magazine)
‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Gripping … Bravura storytelling’ VOGUE
‘A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare’ FINANCIAL TIMES
‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Gripping … Bravura storytelling’ VOGUE
‘A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare’ FINANCIAL TIMES
‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Gripping … Bravura storytelling’ VOGUE
‘A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare’ FINANCIAL TIMES