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Sympathy

Written by: Olivia Sudjic
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
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Publisher's Summary

At 23 Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose life story has strange parallels to her own and whom she believes is her "Internet twin". What seems to Mizuko like a chance encounter with Alice is anything but - after all, in the age of connectivity, nothing is coincidence. Their subsequent relationship is doomed from the outset, exposing a tangle of lies and sexual encounters as three families across the globe collide, and the most ancient of questions - where do we come from? - is answered just by searching online.

In its heady evocation of everything from Haruki Murakami to Patricia Highsmith to Edith Wharton, Sympathy is utterly original - a thrilling tale of obsession, doubling, blood ties and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age.

©2017 Olivia Sudjic (P)2017 Audible, Ltd

Critic Reviews

"'The reason to read this novel, aside from the au courant topic, is the luscious, absorbing writing." (Library Journal)
"The best fictional account I've read of the way the internet has shaped our inner lives. A literary thriller that confirms the arrival of a major new talent." (Alex Preston, Observer Fiction to Look out for in 2017)
"Filled with explosive intelligence and dark humour, Sympathy is both beautiful and raw, and captures the essence of personal responsibility in the digital age." (Elle, 'Author to Watch 2017')

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