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'Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar... (It's also insanely funny.)' Lena Dunham

About the Author

Vendela Vida is the author of the acclaimed novels And Now You Can Go, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Lovers. She is a founding editor of The Believer magazine, and the editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children.

Reviews

A thriller-taut story of a crisis of identity and opportunity, full of lies, shadows and subterfuge.
*Psychologies*

An intoxicatingly strange quest for anonymity... What emerges from this shifting, uncertain terrain is a novel of sublime unease and delicious bewilderment. You are not yourself, and it is wonderful.
*Guardian*

Ms Vida's novel portrays with cool wit and suspense the explosive emancipation of a woman who is finally empowered to grab some warmth, drama, magic for herself.
*International New York Times*

[An] intimate and understated tale...powerful and empowering, thanks to the author's innate skill.
*The Big Issue*

Very funny... The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty is also moving, clever and bright as a button.
*Independent on Sunday*

Full of surprises, it demands to be read in one go.
*Good Housekeeping*

This enigmatic psychological thriller...puts the reader squarely in the shoes of the protagonist, making this already taut mystery thriller an even more intense read.
*Scotsman*