A New York Times Editor's Choice

"Eventful and atmospheric....deliciously complex...In its latter half, "The Anniversary" grows into a feminist commentary on the nature of mysteries and marriages...The Anniversary is similar to contemporary books like Meg Wolitzer's The Wife and Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in the ways it tackles gender and power, but it offers the pleasures of the Gothic novel too -- houses and relationships full of secrets, and a narrator with an uncertain grasp on reality." -- New York Times Book Review

"Beguiling and incisive in equal measure." -- Publishers Weekly

"Bishop expertly dissects the innards of a seesaw relationship and the inequities women must battle. The bristling arguments crackle brilliantly. In the end, 'did she or did she not' is almost beside the point. It's the marriage that keeps us engaged." -- Booklist

"If you are making a list for summer reading, you can't do much better than Stephanie Bishop's The Anniversary... [a] smart, entertaining novel." -- ArtsFuse

"Elegant and highly accomplished... Dangerously readable... If only all novels were this engaging and this perceptive about human nature." -- The Guardian (UK)

"A psychologically layered landscape that simultaneously holds in suspension and keeps in play the crime-genre structure of the book... Bishop honours the feminist spin she puts on the crime genre." -- Times Literary Supplement (UK)

"A stylish read you won't be able to put down." -- Times (UK)

"Impossible to put down... Excellent." -- Daily Mail (UK)

"This novel goes beyond suspense, tackling gender power imbalances and slipping into metafiction... A compulsive yet redemptive book layered with nuances." -- Financial Times (UK)

"The Anniversary is bejewelled with lovely moments and undeniably exquisite writing, a fine education about desire...An admirable and ambitious investigation into some troublesome contemporary things about men and women and the forces of desire, not just sexual but creative desire." -- Sydney Morning Herald (AU)

"Absolutely addictive. When reading The Anniversary, I found myself forgetting who I am or where I was. Only art that exudes brilliance can conjure this state." -- Szilvia Molnar, author of The Nursery

"The Anniversary is seductive, mysterious, and fiercely intelligent. Bishop peels back, with great insight and artistry, layer after layer of her character's psyche, laying bare the singular pleasures and secret resentments at the center of any marriage, any life. This is a book to be savored for its elegant sentences and psychological depth, but you'll be hard-pressed not to devour it in a few voracious sittings." -- Sara Freeman, author of Tides

"Bracing and mesmeric, with bursts of insight and dark descents into secrecy and unknowing, The Anniversary charts a course through the unruly landscape of self-expression and self-deception, exploring the perils of a woman's power in art and marriage. I was captivated as much by its truths as by its treatment of deceit in fiction and life." -- Charmaine Craig, author of My Nemesis

"Very addictive and so smart - a fever dream about a writer getting everything they want and living out all their nightmares at the same time." -- Rebecca May Johnson, author of Small Fires

"Nothing in this exquisitely twisted tale is quite what it seems. But though the cool, sharp, disenchanted narrator is not to be trusted, one thing about her is for real - her ability to say things so witty and so pungently true I kept turning down pages to mark them. If I kept a commonplace book I would have filled it with lines from this compelling novel about creativity and its discontents." -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author of The Pike