The Most

Clever, moving and unexpected. A brilliantly deft and subtle story. * Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing *Delivers on page-turning interior secrets * Observer *I inhaled this story while sitting on a Corsican beach…this is a taut, perfect book - a smart takedown of 1950s social mores and a portrait of a very imperfect but very human marriage. * Stylist *I inhaled this story while sitting on a Corsican beach … this is a taut, perfect book - a smart takedown of 1950s social mores and a portrait of a very imperfect but very human marriage. * Stylist *In just 144 pages Anthony manages to convey the stifling atmosphere for women in the 1950s through the simple story of a housewife who chooses not to go to church that day and instead spends all her time in an unloved swimming pool, which she refuses to leave. * Cosmopolitan, ‘Best Novella of 2024’ *Sensational … Readers won’t want to put this down. * Publishers Weekly *A fascinating, elegant read where not a single word is wasted * My Weekly *With this seemingly small act of female rebellion, novelist Jessica Anthony leads us into the secret upheaval of marriage, good-girl American society, and a silenced female fury and ambition. Get ready, readers. The Most is an exquisitely written, heady rush of story. * OPRAH DAILY *Jessica Anthony’s The Most is a brilliant and startling domestic fable of longing… The Most is a novel of ruthless beauty. I read it in one perfect sitting. * Isle McElroy, author of People Collide *One of the most inventive writers working today * Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls *

Jessica Anthony is the author of The Convalescent, Chopsticks, and Enter the Aardvark. Anthony’s novels have been published in over a dozen countries, and are featured in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Book Review as an Editors’ Choice. She is the recipient of the Creative Capital Award in Literature and has been awarded fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation and the Bridge Guard Foundation. She lives in Maine, USA.

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