Distortion
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Publishing:4th Feb '27
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 4th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The leftfield fictions of Julia Armfield and Katie Kitamura meet in this unsettling novel of power, seduction and surrender
'Menacing, taut, and totally immersive' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, author of The Water Cure 'Exquisite: darkly gripping and sensuous' DAISY LAFARGE, author of Paul 'I never realised what it meant, to give yourself fully to a character. Every part of you. Would I go through it again, despite everything? In a heartbeat.' When aspiring actor Natalie is offered her first major role in the new film by Robert Langford - a revered director with an intimidating reputation - she instantly accepts. It would be madness to turn down this career-making opportunity - wouldn't it? As always, he demands total immersion: extended rehearsals in a remote location, close bonding among the cast, a set cloistered away from outsiders and even loved ones. Langford claims his take on the horror genre will expose prejudice itself as the hidden terror plaguing society. But as filming gets underway and the project tightens its grip on Natalie's body and mind - exposing her disability in ways she's never experienced before - normal boundaries seem to shift. There are freak incidents and sudden disappearances, murmured secrets and hidden meetings. What, exactly, is Langford's purpose? And what has Natalie truly sacrificed in her pursuit of success?
A thrilling story about the personal cost of making art. Bromwich has written something special -- Amy Twigg, author of SPOILT CREATURES
Exquisite, darkly gripping and sensuous -- Daisy Lafarge, author of PAUL
Distortion's charms are as seductive as they are deliciously claustrophobic - it's rare to read a novel so beautifully menacing, taut, and totally immersive -- Sophie Mackintosh, author of THE WATER CURE
Pulsing with danger as well as asking probing questions about seduction, disability, and the female body, Distortion is utterly addictive. I was swept along by Natalie's voice and the tightly woven plot of a film production building to a chilling climax. -- Lucy Ashe, author of THE MODEL PATIENT
Distortion is a propulsive novel that encapsulates the innate horror of being othered, and sometimes even romanticised for a quality you can neither choose nor change. It wonderfully captures the circling, watchful quality of the minoritised, and the predatory yet delicious nature of attention. -- Rochelle Dowden-Lord, author of LUSH
Kathryn Bromwich has written something truly special. Distortion is beautifully immersive; once you're seduced by its shadows, you're utterly enveloped. A tale that expertly constricts its darkness around your heart until the end. -- Matt Wesolowski, author of CHANGELING
Praise for At the Edge of the Woods: An exceptional debut; uncanny, unsettling, original and subtle -- Robert Macfarlane, author of IS A RIVER ALIVE?
Extraordinary. What a beautiful, raw and ethereal journey. So much magic and power -- Maxine Peake
A deeply unsettling exploration of what it means to inhabit a female body * Observer *
A delicious, dark unravelling. Kathryn Bromwich's prose is unnerving and tenacious -- Helen Mort, author of A LINE ABOVE THE SKY
ISBN: 9781806490844
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
320 pages
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