Endling LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025

CHOSEN AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY

Yeva is a maverick scientist, trying and failing to breed rare snails in her trailer. To fund her research, she works for a marriage agency, Romeo Meets Yulia, dating Western bachelors looking for a docile Ukrainian bride. Increasingly demoralised and reckless, Yeva and her trailer become embroiled in a haphazard stunt against the marriage industry. So begins a journey across a country on the brink of war, led by three angry women with a truckful of kidnapped bachelors and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species.

'A fierce and funny road-trip novel which is - literally - interrupted by Russia's invasion'
Guardian
'Deeply original . . . darkly funny'
Observer, Books of the Year

'A thrilling ride'
Financial Times
'Fantastic'
Percival Everett
'Funny and smart, full of science, longing and adventure'
Ann Patchett

'Suspenseful and powered by a rare urgency'
Mail on Sunday

'Reva is a complete original . . . a huge amount of fun'
Daily Telegraph

'A bold, brilliant, original, funny and devastating novel'
TLS