The Wreck

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A rich, gorgeous, glorious novel about friendship, love and art. I wanted to live in its pages -- Claire Powell, author of At the Table [A] houseshare horror story... Stewart is brilliant at capturing the glorious intimacies of close friendships as well as their pitfalls -- Killian Fox * Observer *Graphic Novel of the Month* * Glorious... it perfectly captures the disaffection and disappointments of early mid-life... beautifully nuanced... If you think you don't read graphic novels, Lizzy Stewart will make you reconsider. -- Sam Baker * The Shift * 'Satisfyingly detailed and juicy, it's an utter treat and I will be giving a copy to my best friend' -- Amy Liptrot, author of THE OUTRUN A novel I have recently loved to bits. By the inimitable Lizzy Stewart... Friendship, ambition, class, houses, the 1970s - 1990s, love, and coloured illustrations, of course. She's so damn good -- Jessie Burton, author of THE MINIATURIST The Wreck is a completely magnetic piece of work. In her story of two couples, Stewart explores class, desire, friendship, ambition and the endless mysteries of human behaviour with fearless clarity -- Sophie Elmhirst, author of MAURICE AND MARALYN Lizzy Stewart's characters feel to me like friends. I want to have a drink with them, hug them, shake them.... The Wreck is a tender and wise portrait of love and friendship that ponders with an astonishingly light touch big questions to do with who we are and how we live. She's done it again! -- Chloe Ashby, author of SECOND SELF A beautiful, poignant study of friendship as it shifts from light to shade and back again over a lifetime. Lizzy Stewart's characters are so finely drawn that we see and feel their every move. The Wreck is a brilliantly insightful tale of careful manners and caustic undercurrents, all wrapped up in the disheveled tastefulness of the country house. Utterly charming, with a thrillingly critical edge. -- Alex Hyde Friendship, love and a gorgeous old house. A beautiful story beautifully told. I loved inhabiting The Wreck -- Jessica Stanley, author of CONSIDER YOURSELF KISSED I fell hopelessly in love with The Wreck. Lizzy Stewart has created the most inviting, appealing world for her endlessly compelling characters, whose charm and flaws kept me glued to their dramas and entanglements throughout, and left me utterly bereft at the end. A beautiful, funny, clever, insightful book about friendship, desire and idealism, that tackles the great universal question of how to live. -- Lisa Owens What a rare treat to read a graphic novel that deals with love and sex from a sophisticated female perspective. Propulsive and addictive, The Wreck is a dream house filled with deep truths about relationships and yearning for a bigger, freer life, and I wanted to inhabit it forever. -- Astrid Goldsmith, author of THE CRYSTAL VASE Impressive, immersive and full of knotty psychological insight -- Joff Winterhart, author of DEAR HISTORIAN A one-of-a-kind novel: a perfectly-judged story of friendship and mistakes, love, intimacy and the passing of time. I adored every page of it. -- Ana Kinsella, author of FRIDA SLATTERY AS HERSELF Lizzy Stewart has done it again: written and drawn another wonderful book. The Wreck is incredibly intimate and domestic but also astonishingly universal. -- Claire Fuller, author of UNSETTLED GROUND No other writer or artist can pinpoint the queasy interdependence of class and the arts in England with such nauseous accuracy, only to pull the rug out from under us with tenderness -- Joanna Walsh, author of AMATEURS! I adored this... [an] intimate tale of class, envy, love and friendship -- Madeleine Feeny * Bookseller *10 titles not to miss in April* * 'I loved Lizzy Stewart's The Wreck, an exquisitely drawn and expertly calibrated tale of friendship, sex, class and property and the dangerous, contested places where they meet -- Anna Hope, author of ALBION A wonderful book- it's rare to find a novel which so wholeheartedly resists the urge to judge its characters. I love, too, how completely it fits its form, with the nuances of the characters' body language which are visible in the drawings bleeding into the text, changing the way that it's read. It felt to me that it was a story which couldn't possibly have been told in any other way -- Jessie Greengrass A provocative exploration of class, friendship and marriage * Good Housekeeping * [A] beautifully illustrated novel... [with] authentic, deeply compelling characters. Stewart's illustrations add depth and nuance to the protagonists' narration, but her greatest triumph is her strikingly perceptive pros * UK Press Syndication *