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Creation Lake

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author

Rachel Kushner

21
Coup de coeur
Coup de coeur (Literature), by Sorcha
Despite what its blurb may say, this novel is not a spy thriller. Sure, Sadie Smith is an undercover agent working for a mysterious client, tasked with surveilling and gathering intel on an eco-commune of sorts called Le Moulin. But rather than a James Bond-type thriller, full of action and gunshots and mysteries to be uncovered, Creation Lake is an exploration of Humanity and all its ambiguities. It is a slow-paced, introspective novel with a morally-grey, pretty unlikeable main character, a deadpan sort of dark humour laced throughout and lots of lengthy paragraphs on our ancestors the Neanderthals and the Homo Sapiens. I loved it.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

'Imagine Slow Horses' Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comer's character in Killing Eve' SUNDAY TIMES

'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill written by John le Carre' OBSERVER


Seductive and cunning American spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France.

Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.

Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Bruno's idealism laughable, but just as she is certain she's the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.

Beneath this a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue lies one of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future, and a profound treatise on human history.

'The most exciting writer of her generation'
BRET EASTON ELLIS

'Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture' HERNAN DIAZ

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Sept 2024
Dimensions: 135 x 215 x 33 mm
ISBN: 9781787334380