The Anniversary: An addictive and dangerously readable literary

'Stunning' i paper

'Dangerously readable' Observer

'Electrifying' Sunday Times

Novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Patrick is older than J.B., a revered film director and formerly her professor. J.B's art has been forever overseen by him, now it may overshadow his.

For days they sail in the sun, with nothing but dark water all around them. Then a storm hits, and Patrick falls off the ship.

J.B. is left alone, as the search for what happened to Patrick - and the truth about their marriage - begins.

'Magnificent' Joanna Cannon

'Compulsive' Financial Times

'I loved it' Megan Hunter

Stephanie Bishop is a widely acclaimed novelist and critic. She is the recipient of multiple prizes, including The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing, the Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (shortlisted), the Christina Stead Prize for fiction (shortlisted) and the Stella Prize (longlisted). She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.