' Wayward reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic singular and very funny portrait of a
woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad' New York Times Book Review [insert 5
stars] 'If there's any justice in the world Spiotta's firecracker of a novel Wayward will
bring her the attention she very much deserves' Lucy Scholes Sunday Telegraph Samantha
Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill her teenage daughter is increasingly
remote and she finds herself staring into 'the Mids' - hours of supreme wakefulness when women
of a certain age contemplate their lives. For Sam this means motherhood mortality and the
state of an unravelling nation. When Sam falls in love with a decrepit Arts and Crafts house
on the wrong side of town she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life attempting to
find beauty in the ruins. 'One of the most wildly talented writers in America. This is
Spiotta's best book yet' George Saunders 'A slyly funny clever and compelling story about the
righteous (and rarely irrational) rage of women of a certain age' Sarra Manning Red magazine
'A piercing novel about what we lose and gain by when we step out of life's deepest worn
grooves' Vogue 'She writes with sly humour and utter seriousness a rare articulation of
midlife now' Claire Messud
