The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison

As such it is another triumph from one of our finest writers, and essential reading for 2020-Fantasy Hive Brilliantly unsettling-Olivia Laing Harrisons unsettling and melancholy novel, gritted with farce and dreadful laughter, shouts award-winner on every page.-The Times Like reading Thomas Pynchon underwater, this is a book of alienation, atmosphere, half glimpsed revelation - and some of the most beautiful writing youll ever encounter.-Daily Mail M. This funny, unsettling book is better left undescribed, but post-Brexit England haunted by green fish-people growing out of toilet bowls should, uh, whet the appetite-Rory Scothorne, New Statesman Books of the year Beautifully written, utterly compelling, and like much of Harrisons works, there are scenes of such sublime strangeness that they linger in the mind long after the novel is over. Davies A stunning masterpiece-Paul Cornell Absolutely astonishing-Michael Marshall Smith An extraordinary experience-William Gibson As ominous and bizarre as the title suggests. 4.5 out of 5.-SFX A magnificent book-Neil Gaiman A mesmerising, mysterious book. 9.4/10.-Fantasy Book Review A deeply unsettling fever dream of a novel. Review Quotes Harrison is a linguistic artist, constructing sentences that wrap and weave like a stream of consciousness without ever breaking focus.-Sci-Fi Paradise The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again is a novel so good all the usual reviewerish superlatives barely seem superlative enough.-Sibilant Fricative Unsettling and insinuating, fabulously alert to the spaces between things, Harrison is without peer as a chronicler of the fraught, unsteady state were in.-The Guardian beauty and precision of psychogeographic prose. But what, exactly, happened to her mother? Why has the local waitress disappeared into a shallow pool in a field behind the house? And why is the town so obsessed with that old Victorian morality tale, The Water Babies? As Shaw and Victoria struggle to maintain their relationship, the sunken lands are rising up again, unnoticed in the shadows around them. Meanwhile, Victoria is up in the Midlands, renovating her dead mothers house, trying to make new friends. Or it would be if Shaw hadnt got himself involved in a conspiracy theory that, on dark nights by the river, seems less and less theoretical. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctors daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age thirteen. Shaw had a breakdown, but hes getting himself back together. Davis Brilliantly unsettling Olivia Laing A magificent book Neil Gaiman An extraordinary experience William Gibson Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes the boundaries of the novel form.

Book Synopsis *WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2020* *A New Statesman Book of the Year* A mesmerising, mysterious book.

The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison