August Blue

<p><b>The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of <i>Hot Milk</i> and<i> Swimming Home</i></b><br><br>At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance.<br><br>Now she is in Athens, watching as another young woman, a stranger but uncannily familiar - almost her double - purchases a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history.<br><br>So begins a journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who bought the dancing horses.<br><br>A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, <i>August Blue</i> uncovers the ways in which we seek to lose an old story, find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew.<br><br><b>'A writer at the peak of her talents' Lisa Appignanesi<br><br>'There's no one touching the brilliance of Deborah Levy's prose today' Lee Rourke<br><br>'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression' Jeanette Winterson</b></p> <p><b>The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of <i>Hot Milk</i> and<i> Swimming Home</i></b><br><br>At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance.<br><br>Now she is in Athens, watching as another young woman, a stranger but uncannily familiar - almost her double - purchases a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history.<br><br>So begins a journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who bought the dancing horses.<br><br>A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, <i>August Blue</i> uncovers the ways in which we seek to lose an old story, find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew.<br><br><b>'A writer at the peak of her talents' Lisa Appignanesi<br><br>'There's no one touching the brilliance of Deborah Levy's prose today' Lee Rourke<br><br>'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression' Jeanette Winterson</b></p>