Sympathy

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THE DEBUT OF 2017THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT FROM ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS

‘Reads likeThe Talented Mr Ripley for the 21st century’ —Vice UK

At twenty-three, AliceHare arrives in New York looking for a place to call home. Instead she finds Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer, who she begins to follow online,fixated from afar and increasingly convinced this stranger’s life holds a mirror to her own. But as Alice closes in on her ‘internet twin’, fictional and real lives begin to blur, leaving a tangle of lies, blood ties and sexual encounters that cannot be erased.