Crudo

questioning love letter to life and to art, will blow you away.' Deborah Levy
'Readable, shockingly new, and surprisingly tender. I didn't want it to stop.' Chris Kraus
'I read it in one go, lost all sense of time, floating on the rhythm, stung by the beats, I bet Kathy Acker would have loved it, I did.' Viv Albertine
'One long electric dream, spinning with intimate energy and the sharpest saddest funniest humour.' Philip Hoare?
'I adored Crudo. I believe it is a great novel. Olivia writes so beautifully about life and nature in both city and country, and always finds some aspect to laugh about, one feels today's world is worth saving.' Jilly Cooper
'The diffuse literary form of Crudo is ridiculously good. Olivia Laing has probably the most art & texture savvy sensitive ear of anyone writing today. Here, try it.' Eileen Myles

Olivia Laing is the author of acclaimed works of non-fiction, To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring and The Lonely City, which has been translated into eighteen languages and sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. Her first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. She's a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction.
Laing writes on art and culture for many publications, including the Guardian, New York Times and frieze. She lives in Suffolk.