**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025** A GUARDIAN OBSERVER FINANCIAL TIMES BBC
TIME VOGUE MARIE CLAIRE ESQUIRE and ROLLING STONE BOOK TO READ IN 2025 'Slick sharp
strange and singular . . . You'll gulp this novel down in one in-breath' SAMANTHA HARVEY
Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital 'A lightning bolt of a novel' FINANCIAL TIMES 'I'm
not sure there's anyone better writing in America today' ALEX PRESTON Observer One woman
the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating destabilising novel that asks whether
we ever really know the people we love Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant.
She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive
troubling young - young enough to be her son. Who is he to her and who is she to him? In this
compulsively readable brilliantly constructed novel two competing narratives unspool
rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day - partner parent creator muse -
and the truths every performance masks especially from those who think they know us most
intimately. Taut and hypnotic Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.
