Awake Awake

An incredible achievement, a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I've read before . . . every character and storyline could be its own novel and yet they come together so thunderously and convincingly . . . It blew me away * Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee *
A unique, visionary novel about the toll of memory and the power and fragility of the human heart and mind. Fiona Mozley gives a masterclass in the novel form, showing just how much room for invention we still have. I couldn't put it down * Kim Sherwood, author of Testament *
A warm, kindly and beautifully written novel about growing up in a family and in history, about inconvenient memory and haunted repression * Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall *
A stunning jewel of a novel. In crisply evoked scenes, Mozley brings to life all the peril and appetite of childhood friendship, set against the changing political climate of the early twenty-first century. It is a book in which the past lives on in the present, in which history itself proves skittish and irreducible. It is, finally, a gorgeous testament to the fierce bonds that connect us when we are young and the memories that shape not only who we were once, but who we become * Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves *
On the one hand, a clarion call - a clear-eyed view of contemporary moral and political failure in the UK - and on the other, an assembly of engrossing philosophical and metaphysical engagements with the nature of memory . . . a fascinating read * M John Harrison, Guardian *
All the ingredients are present for a rich and compelling novel * Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday Times *
Introspective and intelligent * Irish Times *
A fascinating novel about our tenuous sense of self, friendship, and more * Forbes, Most Anticipated "Weird Girl Lit" for 2026 *
An unforgettable inquiry into the nature of memory * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *