Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin author Megan McDowell translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:7th May '26
Should be back in stock very soon

‘It’s a total mind-wrecker’ – Max Porter, author of Shy
‘The book I wish I had written’ – Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women
‘Utterly gripping’ – The Observer
‘Dazzling’ – Evening Standard
Amanda knows she has to answer the questions. Lying feverish and unseeing in her hospital bed, she tries her best to account for how she came to be there. She remembers the lake, the house and the strange woman next door with her unthinkable confession. She remembers the fear of losing her young daughter, Nina. Now she is alone and Nina is gone. At what moment did everything go dark?
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Fever Dream is an unforgettable masterpiece of psychological terror from Samanta Schweblin.
‘I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read . . . I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. By the time I finished the book, I couldn’t bring myself to look out the windows’ – Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
Read this in a single sitting and by the end I could hardly breathe. It's a total mind-wrecker. Amazing. Thrilling. -- Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers
A book to read in one frantic sitting – bold, uncanny and utterly gripping * The Observer *
An unnerving read, straddling the realms of the supernatural and of Argentina’s dark recent history * Financial Times *
Terrifying and brilliant . . . Dangerously addictive -- Chris Power, The Guardian
This daring, ambiguous thriller is an apocalyptic lamentation for our world in free fall, a place in which nothing and no one, not even a child or a horse in a field, is safe * Irish Times *
Explosive . . . delivers a skin-prickling masterclass in dread and suspense * Economist *
Dazzling, unforgettable, and deeply strange. I’ve never read anything like it * Evening Standard *
Part modern horror, part love story, this nightmarish novel about a young woman recounting her astonishing story from her death bed covers themes of maternal anxiety and ecological disaster. It will grip and haunt you in equal measure. -- Service95
Exceptionally written . . . a superlative work of the imagination, resonant, beguiling and truly memorable * The Spectator *
The sort of book that makes you look under the bed last thing at night and sleep with the light on * Daily Mail *
I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read . . . I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. By the time I finished the book, I couldn’t bring myself to look out the windows -- Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
ISBN: 9781037412035
Dimensions: 200mm x 134mm x 14mm
Weight: 140g
192 pages