About the Author

Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. The author of three previous novels, his work has been translated into thirty languages. His essays appear in the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, and he is an advisory editor of the Paris Review. His awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has twice been selected by Granta as one of their Best of Young British Novelists.

Reviews

The Future Future is a terrific novel: a testament to female friendship, an adventure story, a political commentary and a hymn to the power of language crafted into a unique and compelling shape
*Financial Times*

Adam Thirlwell considers the celestial and the political on the same plane, creating wondrous new ways of seeing history, nature, friendship and time. He weaves together so many wisps of reality, and the result is a radically beautiful new novel that is funny, touching, memorable and bright
*Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour*

A luminous book, brimming with originality and cleverness
*Mail on Sunday*

Sex, revolution and death in eighteenth-century France and America, described in the language of the future, and featuring an astonishing visit to the moon. A dazzling performance, unlike anything else you'll read this (or any other) year
*Salman Rushdie, author of Midnight's Children*

Thirlwell's prose is hypnotic and coolly beautiful. The writing is full of dreamlike leaps, not just at the level of plot, but in its sentences, too... The Future Future has a beauty and a mysterious power that reflect its enigmatic protagonist
*Guardian*

A book filled with imaginative leaps, brave decisions and tiny details that give delight
*Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn*

A complex, brilliant book... Engrossing
*Times Literary Supplement*

Sharp and witty and burningly original: a book that feels joyfully new
*Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite*

I am utterly obsessed by Adam Thirlwell's dazzling, effervescent The Future Future. More epic than The Favourite, more vivid than Marie Antoinette, his prose sandblasts the dust off history, revealing the untold stories of real women - raw, sexy, funny and glinting with life. The Future Future is a parachute in time, both modern and timeless, unflinching and hilarious. Mesmerising. I'm transfixed
*Polly Stenham, author of That Face*

A landmark - precisely because it's so deeply embedded in our history and is so unthinkably original
*Edmund White, author of A Previous Life*