- Published: 21 November 2023
- ISBN: 9781787334410
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $34.99
The Future Future
‘Unlike anything else’ Salman Rushdie
- Published: 21 November 2023
- ISBN: 9781787334410
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $34.99
A landmark - precisely because it's so deeply embedded in our history and is so unthinkably original
Edmund White, author of A Previous Life
I am utterly obsessed by Adam Thirlwell's dazzling, effervescent The Future Future. More epic than The Favourite, more vivid than Marie Antoinette, his prose sandblasts the dust off history, revealing the untold stories of real women - raw, sexy, funny and glinting with life. The Future Future is a parachute in time, both modern and timeless, unflinching and hilarious. Mesmerising. I'm transfixed
Polly Stenham, author of That Face
Adam Thirlwell's best novel - but it's also the best novel anyone else has written anywhere for many years. Daring, funny, powerful and deeply imaginative - asking profound questions about the nature of revolution, about the rules of history and power, and about the strange times we find ourselves in
Daniel Kehlmann, author of Measuring the World
A breathtaking book, one that constantly surprises. It makes you think and, in a delicious combination, it makes you laugh. Set amidst the turbulence of ideas and movements that sped across salons, countries and continents in the latter part of the 18th century, it tumbles that revolution into one of our own. Its heroine, Celine, has an aura of innocence but she's also a thoroughly modern woman, polymorphous in her sexuality, a winningly talented creator of networks of resistance in a world where the power relations between the sexes are as brutal as our own
Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad, and Sad
A book filled with imaginative leaps, brave decisions and tiny details that give delight
Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn
Adam Thirlwell considers the celestial and the political on the same plane, creating wondrous new ways of seeing history, nature, friendship and time. He weaves together so many wisps of reality, and the result is a radically beautiful new novel that is funny, touching, memorable and bright
Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour
Sex, revolution and death in eighteenth-century France and America, described in the language of the future, and featuring an astonishing visit to the moon. A dazzling performance, unlike anything else you'll read this (or any other) year
Salman Rushdie, author of Midnight's Children
Sharp and witty and burningly original: a book that feels joyfully new
Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite
An energised, radically different novel
Sainsbury's Magazine
Thirlwell's prose is hypnotic and coolly beautiful. The writing is full of dreamlike leaps, not just at the level of plot, but in its sentences, too... The Future Future has a beauty and a mysterious power that reflect its enigmatic protagonist
Guardian
A complex, brilliant book... Engrossing
Times Literary Supplement
The Future Future is a terrific novel: a testament to female friendship, an adventure story, a political commentary and a hymn to the power of language crafted into a unique and compelling shape
Financial Times
A luminous book, brimming with originality and cleverness
Mail on Sunday
Dazzling and unnerving
ArtReview
Thirlwell has a terrific ear for dialogue
Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year*