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The novel exists on that narrow borderlinewhere strangeness merges with the mundane, and Phillips is both an explorer, and a brilliant chronicler of this murky realm. * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eSinister, existential and written in blazing prose * i *\u003cbr\u003eI love Helen Phillips's wild, brilliant, eccentric brain -- Lauren Groff\u003cbr\u003eHelen Phillips is one of the most exciting young writers working today, and I envy those who get to discover her work here for the first time -- Jenny Offill\u003cbr\u003eThis book held me hostage, invaded my dreams and my waking thoughts, and readjusted my brain; Phillips is, as always, doing something at once wildly her own and utterly primal. 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Helen Phillips writes at the nexus of science fiction and psychological realism, conjuring a narrative so mind-bending and immersive that it'll change what you see as real.  She is an author at the height of her power, and we are so lucky to be living in her moment -- Alexandra Kleeman, author of YOU TOO CAN HAVE A BODY LIKE MINE\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Need \u003c\/i\u003eis a spellbinding novel, both unsettling and irresistible. The best fiction finds the uncanny within the familiar; it makes us feel the fantastical undercurrent of our embodied lives. With exquisite economy and evocative prose, Phillips manifests the surreal, terrifying, and visceral experience of motherhood -- Dana Spiotta, author of INNOCENTS AND OTHERS\u003cbr\u003eA superbly engaging read – quirky, perceptive, and gently provocative... 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It’s very moving\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Kevin Barry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eH(A)PPY \u003c\/i\u003eis anything but conventional\u003c\/b\u003e, subverting the traditions of sci-fi, typography and narrative … The coloured words are joined by a host of typographical flourishes, making the book a bravura piece of design … \u003cb\u003eBarker is as gnomic, terrifying and glorious as ever.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Justine Jordan * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicola Barker’s kaleidoscopic new novel is a socio-political futurama with a wildness and honesty all of its own\u003c\/b\u003e … \u003cb\u003eWhat wonders there are in Nicola Barker’s bewildering, fatiguing and deliciously stimulating new novel\u003c\/b\u003e … Echoing and quoting literary styles and situations, disrupting the words on the page – via those coloured inks, blank pages, typographical games – in a manner that \u003cb\u003etraces a line from Laurence Sterne to avant-gardists such as BS Johnson, Deborah Levy and Tom McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e … But \u003ci\u003eH(a)ppy\u003c\/i\u003e ventures far beyond a retread of narratological theory … \u003cb\u003eAny description of \u003ci\u003eH(a)ppy\u003c\/i\u003e can only fail to do justice to its wildness and its honesty. It is a superb novel by a genuinely experimental and committed novelist. In Barker’s hand, narrative, however fragile, not only survives but thrives\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Alex Clark * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e(Barker) specialises in formal eccentricity, thematic novelty, stylistic excess ... Her new book is her strangest yet, \u003cb\u003ean avant-garde slice of dystopian science fiction that thumbs its nose...at the conventions of the genre\u003c\/b\u003e ... It is a small miracle that \u003cb\u003ethis uncompromising anti-novel about the collapse of narrative absolutely works\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003cb\u003eBarker is as innovative and idiosyncratic as ever\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Edmund Gordon * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo book Nicola Barker writes is remotely like a book by anyone else, which is one of the many reasons to celebrate her\u003c\/b\u003e. Also, no two books by Nicola Barker are doing remotely the same thing, which is another. 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