'Inviting stylish and candid ... Pollard's future as a novelist is very bright indeed' The i
'Clever warm and funny' Sarah Moss The Guardian 'This isn't the first - and most certainly
won't be the last - pandemic novel but it might be the most brilliant' Daily Mail 'I am sick
of the future. Up to here with the future. I don't want anything to do with it don't want it
near me' It is 2020 and in a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined a
woman is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the ancient world. Navigating the
tightening grip of lockdown a marriage in crisis and a ten-year-old son who seems
increasingly unreachable she becomes fixated on our many forms of divination and prediction:
on oracles tarot cards and tea leaves and the questions we have always asked as we scroll and
click and rage against our fates. But in doing so she fails to notice the future creeping into
the heart of her own home. For despite our best intentions - our sacrifices and our bargains
with the gods - time certainty and sometimes those we love can still slip away ...
Heartbreakingly relatable and achingly funny Delphi is both a snapshot and a time capsule
deftly capturing our pasts our presents and how we keep on going in a world that is ever more
uncertain and absurd. 'Delphi is a compact miracle of a book' Evie Wyld author of The Bass
Rock 'Bold brave and uncompromising Pollard has found a way to write about the last couple of
years which is both truthful and enjoyable to read which I didn't think was possible' Cathy
Rentzenbrink author of Everyone is Still Alive 'Dark and dangerous disturbed and disturbing
in equal measure - I loved it' Anna Hope author of Expectation
