MAN OUT OF TIME
STEPHANIE BISHOP
THE ANNIVERSARY
Coming in March 2023
W&N (UK)
Hachette (Australia)
DTV (Germany
Marsilio (Italy)
Trei (Romania)
'The Anniversary is a haunting mystery, sophisticated, subtle and subversive. Bishop considers the discipline, scrupulous and otherwise, required to make a marriage, as well as to make art, capturing the longing and the disappointment inherent in the attempt to make one's self known to others.'
Susanna Moore, author of IN THE CUT
‘Tense, elegant, sensuous.’
Niamh Campbell, author of WE WERE YOUNG
‘In The Anniversary Stephanie Bishop expertly and mercilessly builds an atmosphere of intense uncertainty and threat. You won’t want to put it down.’
Chris Power, author of A LONELY MAN
‘The dread that slowly creeps into your bones while reading The Anniversary is difficult to shake off, yet you cannot look away. I revelled in every bit of this astute, compelling, psychological novel.’
Virginia Feito, author of MRS MARCH
‘Exquisite, profound, and utterly exhilarating: The Anniversary is a stunning achievement.’
Mark Brandi, author of WIMMERA
Novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Her former professor, Patrick is much older than J.B.. But when they met, he seemed somehow ageless, as all new gods appear in the eyes of those who worship them. He is a film director. A cult figure. But now his success is starting to wane and J.B. is on the cusp of winning a major literary prize. Her art has been forever overseen by him, now it may overshadow his.
For days they sail in the sun. They lie about drinking, reading, sleeping, having sex. There is nothing but dark water all around them.
Then a storm hits and Patrick falls off the ship. J.B. is left alone, as the search for what happened to Patrick – and the truth about their marriage – begins.