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'This summer's Must-Read novel... a darkly funny, tartly feminist look at the tender state of our bodies and souls' -- Vogue

'An ingenious sci-fi scenario that tweaks at the edges of what we believe about that part of us we call a self... Lacey has sly things to say about equality too... Why things should be this way, and whether they can be better, are great questions' -- Guardian

'An exciting and clever follow-up to her acclaimed debut... an unsettling, but whip-smart meditation on love'--Independent

'A clever, gripping read... The Answers is a dystopian take on dating that everyone will be reading this year' -- Stylist

'Strange, intelligent... Lacey explores seismic questions about our relationships to our bodies and our selves in cool, surgically beautiful language... there's no other novel like it out there' -- Metro

'Sharp and funny... beautifully sad' -- Financial Times

'Asks intelligent and disquieting questions about love in the Tinder era'-- Sunday Times

'A sly, surreal take on love and relationships... Lacey has a poet's eye, and pays minute attention to every sentence, every word... Intelligent, articulate and sure of her gifts, Lacey is in possession of that rare skill -- she knows exactly what to leave out' -- Irish Times

'A dystopian romance keyed to the metric-obsessed information age... Relentlessly thought-provoking, this is a sophisticated performance, concerned [...] with the careful unfolding of tightly packed ideas about gender and technology... The Answers is a novel that niggles and gnaws -- and that is a good thing' -- Daily Telegraph

'Lacey's the real thing and in The Answers she takes full command of her powers... This is a novel of intellect and amplitude that deepens as it moves forward... Lacey makes you happy to submit. She casts a spell' -- New York Times

'[A] multi-pronged satire which takes shots at misogyny, the 'gig economy' and our obsession with data' -- Sunday Telegraph

'Catherine Lacey is one of the most intelligent and brittle and funny writers of her generation. In The Answers she builds -- out of the raw stuff of bewilderment and absence -- a soaring, heartbreaking work that's just on the right side of being nearly too beautiful to bear' -- Lauren Groff

'[A]slyly subversive and funny take on the modern dating game' -- Psychologies

'Modern, strange, moving... A sharp premise which will make you shiver about the future' -- --Stellar

'A dystopian dating novel that manages to be both funny and skewering of many things that need to be skewered' -- Red

'Delight at The Answers' suggestiveness, its lovely clean prose and its lack of answers' -- Literary Review

'Not your typical romance, The Answers verges on the dystopian' --Radio Times

Catherine Lacey is the author of THE ANSWERS and NOBODY IS EVER MISSING. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch & German. She was born in Mississippi and is based in Chicago. Her first story collection, CERTAIN AMERICAN STATES, will be published by Granta in 2017.