The Booker Prize 2025

"An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love."

"A thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family."

"A masterful, page-turning examination of the minutiae of life and a dazzling chronicle of the human heart."

"A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists."

"It’s matter of fact, effortlessly warm, and it uses the smallest parts of human behaviour to uphold bigger themes, like mortality, sickness, and love"

"A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp."

"A radiant novel about family, desire and what we inherit, and the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer."

A twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power."

"Ledia Xhoga’s ruminative debut novel interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation."

"An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine."