FORTHCOMING SEPTEMBER 2021

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'The tremors of McCrea’s prose thrillingly record what happens as a world spins off its axis, shattering public and private lives. This electrifying fiction confirms McCrea’s status among the leading novelists of his brilliant generation.'

      --Frank McGuinness, author of Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

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'The Sisters Mao is a spectacular novel, utterly enthralling and insightful; every voice is penetrating, dazzling. In spite of the setting, it is full of relevance for these times; it manages to be both historically authentic and thrillingly contemporary. McCrea is a writer of extraordinary talent.'

      --Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither

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'McCrea is a wonderful writer: bold, innovative, and fiercely intelligent, and these qualities shine from this magnificent novel. I was enthralled from the first sentence to the last.'

      --Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers

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‘Written with McCrea’s trademark confidence and virtuosity, this is a sumptuous, winning book. Its characters are not so much drawn from life (Imelda Marcos makes an entrance) as strange revenants from a turbulent dream. Its high intelligence throws light everywhere, and suggestive shade.’

      --Sebastian Barry, author of Days Without End

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'A sweeping political saga spanning East and West. McCrea’s confident and lucid prose gives us both the personal and the political. Mesmerising.’

      --Xiaolu Guo, author of A Lover’s Discourse

 

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