A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021 A Metro Book of the Year 2021 A Washington Post '10 Best Thriller and Mystery Books of 2021' ' A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller. ' SUNDAY TIMES ' A remarkable debut ; an accomplished and intricately plotted story. '-JON McGREGOR ' A Lonely Man is a delicate snare of a novel .'-BRANDON TAYLOR ' A thrilling, unnerving novel . a page-turner with exacting syntax and emotional heft .'-CATHERINE LACEY ' Impressively deft . A Lonely Man is a tense and taut work .'-BENJAMIN MYERS 'A classy page-turner.

' MAIL ON SUNDAY Robert is a struggling writer living in Berlin with his wife and two young daughters. One night he meets Patrick, an enigmatic stranger with a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch - recently found hanged - who is now being followed. But is he really in danger? Patrick's life strikes Robert as a fabrication, but one that comes to obsess him. He decides to use the other man, and his story. An elegant and atmospheric twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is a novel of shadows, of the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth. As his association with Patrick hurtles towards tragedy, Robert must decide: are actual events the only things that give a story life, and are some stories too dangerous to tell?.