The Vivisectors

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‘A novel to marvel at’SOPHIE MACKINTOSH

‘Astonishing’ MICHAEL MAGEE

‘Like Karl Ove Knausgaard at the end of the world’SUNDAY TIMES

The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a darkly beautiful novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other.

In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by vegetation, where power is held in a fragile balance between the academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, Agathe spends her days listlessly propping up the career of her fraudulent professor boss. One day, a campus scandal erupts: Adam, a contrarian and the pet student of her boss, comes into heated conflict with a rising young professor, with both men claiming discrimination.