Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction A SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The
spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL 'one of our
greatest living authors' NEW YORK MAGAZINE __________________________________ Piranesi lives in
the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks day after day he makes a clear and
careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls the thousands upon thousands of statues
the tides that thunder up staircases the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper
halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend the Other. At other times he brings
tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly he is alone. Messages begin to appear scratched out
in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they
want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Lost
texts must be found secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is
becoming strange and dangerous. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable its Kindness
infinite. __________________________________ 'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being .
Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box' DAVID MITCHELL 'It subverts expectations throughout .
Utterly otherworldly' GUARDIAN 'Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of
storytelling' MADELINE MILLER 'Brilliantly singular' SUNDAY TIMES 'A gorgeous spellbinding
mystery . This book is a treasure washed up upon a forgotten shore waiting to be discovered'
ERIN MORGENSTERN 'Head-spinning . Fully imagined and richly evoked' TELEGRAPH
