Catherine Lacey

When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarising shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been...

Brilliant, astonishing Chris Kraus Sly, brilliant, philosophically acute, bitingly funny, and a pure joy to spend hours with Lauren Groff When X - the iconoclastic artist, musician and writer - dies suddenly, CM, her widow, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. The story will lead her deep into the Southern Territory - a fascist theocracy...

Welcome to the Girlfriend Experiment Mary is out of options. Estranged from her family and beset by phantom pain, she signs up for The Girlfriend Experiment - a mysterious project masterminded by a famous Hollywood actor who hires a collection of women to fulfil the different roles of a relationship. Mary is to play the Emotional Girlfriend, alongside a Maternal...

I consumed it. It is the electric charge we need - Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under One Sunday morning, a mysterious silent figure is found sleeping in a church in an unnamed American town. The congregants call this amnesiac Pew and seek to uncover who they are: their age, their gender, their race, their intentions. Are they an orphan,...

The sudden, devastating breakup of a relationship in the winter of 2021 left Catherine Lacey depressed and adrift. She began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of her friendships, a process that led to the writing of fiction that was both entirely imagined and strangely, utterly true. She soon realised that she was writing about her relationship...

Certain American States explores the inescapable nature of certain states of being, as Catherine Lacey's characters navigate through twelve tales of love, loss and longing. A grieving wife gives away the shirts her husband has left behind. A flirtatious widow takes a honeymooning couple to see her husband's grave. A businessman working for a shadowy organization known as "The Company"...