The Anniversary: An addictive and dangerously readable literary thriller, longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize
About this ebook
Novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Patrick is older than J.B., formerly her professor. But now his success is starting to wane and hers 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.
With a stay-up-all-night plot and breathtaking prose, this is the haunting and unforgettable story of a marriage and a death
'Dangerously readable' Observer
'Stunning' i paper
'Electrifying' Sunday Times
'Magnificent' Joanna Cannon
'Compulsive' Financial Times
About the author
Stephanie Bishop is a widely acclaimed novelist and critic. She is the recipient of multiple prizes, including The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing, the Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (shortlisted), the Christina Stead Prize for fiction (shortlisted) and the Stella Prize (longlisted). She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Her second novel, The Other Side of the World was named Literary Fiction Book of the Year in the Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 and winner of The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing 2015. It was also shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the Indie Book Awards and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards as well as being longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize.
Her next novel, Man Out of Time was also longlisted for the Stella Prize, and shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for fiction.
