Incendiary

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Prix Spécial du Jury, and Book of the Month Club’s First Fiction Award · Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award · Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Economist

Now a film starring Michelle Williams, Ewan Macgregor, and Matthew Macfayden!

“Sensitive, artful, and deft . . . near-perfect debut.” —Baltimore Sun

A distraught woman writes a letter to one of history’s most notorious criminals after her young son and her husband are killed in a bomb attack at a soccer match in London. In an emotionally raw voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, she tries to convince him to abandon his terror campaign by revealing to him the desperate sadness—“I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself”—and the broken heart of a working-class life blown apart.
A surreal vision made brilliantly, viscerally powerful and undeniable, Incendiary is a “a mesmerizing tour de force” (The Washington Post).

“Read Incendiary. . . . It is outrageous, infuriating, heartbreaking, terrifying and very, very important.” —NOW Magazine