We Had To Remove This Post

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Acid-dipped novella . . . a glimpse of the foetid underbelly of the internet and a sobering consideration of who is deciding what we see, and at what cost. -- Siobhan Murphy * The Times * A chilling page-turner . . . the unreliable narrator gives it a strong literary heartbeat - and it's richly suspenseful too. With a few deft strokes [Bervoets] manages to incorporate all of the ills of social media into one concise story . . . utterly haunting. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * The Sunday Times * The setting alone is compelling and has always been in need of an accomplished novelist's attention . . . The dreamlike climax of the final pages is beautifully wrought. Men might usefully confront in Bervoets a writerly intelligence at once so tender and so willing to look into the abyss. -- Ian McEwan * The Guardian * Bervoets' neat dissection of morality is as taut as a thriller, sharp as a slug of ice-cold vodka. -- Catherine Taylor * Irish Times * Surprising and enigmatic . . . intriguing and frustrating . . . As we spend more and more time in the trickmirror of the internet, how can we know what or whom to believe? -- Laura van den Berg * The New York Times * A very modern tale about the dark side of the internet. * The Times 'Best Books of Summer' * Hanna Bervoet's slim, compelling novel We Had to Remove This Post addresses the foetid morass of social media . . . Bevoets is often acidly funny, especially when demonstraring the workers' mordant, jockish humour. * TLS * The dank underside of social media, its cruelty and delusions . . . Hanna Bervoets has richly obliged in this superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling. -- <font face="verdana, tahoma"><span>Ian McEwan, author of <i>Atonement</i></span></font> Extremely gripping and intense edgy queer novel -- Andrea Lawlor, author of <i>Paul Takes The Form Of A Mortal Girl</i> This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today, a job that extracts an immeasurable psychic toll. Fascinating and disturbing. -- Ling Ma, author of <i>Severance</i> An astonishing and compelling cast of characters, drawn together through circumstance, separated by the same. The novel is fast paced and thrilling, violent and nightmarish and grief-stricken, but also tender and wildly moving. -- Kristen Arnett, author of <i>Mostly Dead Things</i> and <i>With Teeth</i> I thought it was incredible and has real cult potential. -- Alice Slater * Tik Tok * Powerful, discussable, and a harbinger of a voice-in-translation to watch. * Booklist Starred Review * Scathing, darkly humorous exploration of the impact of VR, IR . . . Bervoets just gets it. This is, unironically, a novel for our time. * Kirkus Starred Review * Magnetic . . . Bervoets frames the story like a mystery, slowly revealing the fractured relationships and circumstances that drove Kayleigh away from her job. * Publishers Weekly *