‘It’s hard to express how much I loved Lanny. Books this good don’t come along very often. It’s a novel like no other, an exhilarating, disquieting, joyous read. It will reach into your chest and take hold of your heart’
Maggie O’Farrell
'It takes a special kind of genius to create something which is so strange and yet so compulsive'
Mark Haddon
‘A powerful yet tender reclamation of the imagination, love, and artmaking - all of it a brilliant defence of the outsider’s tenuous foothold in society’
Ocean Vuong
'Shimmering with the uncanny, it’s a remarkable feat of literary virtuosity’
Sunday Times
‘A magically beguiling work, a triumph of artistic vision’
Financial Times
‘It shouldn't be possible for a book to be simultaneously heart-stopping, heart-shaking and pulse-racing, but that is only one of the extraordinary feats Max Porter pulls off in this astonishing novel’
