Distortion

“Distortion’s charms are as seductive as they are deliciously claustrophobic - it’s rare to read a novel so beautifully menacing, taut, and totally immersive.”
—Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure

“Distortion is an exquisite work: darkly gripping and sensuous, a Milgram experiment-esque horror meets Eyes Wide Shut, posing disconcerting questions about bodies as projection screens and the cost of making art. Kathryn Bromwich is writing what few others are: an artful confrontation with our deepest internalised ableism, and the laying together of disability and desire, so often regarded as incongruous. Distortion does all this and more, weaving suspense not only from its pace and precisely-drawn characters, but also from how the reader – by recognising the novel’s undercurrents in the world around them – becomes implicated.”
—Daisy Lafarge, author of Paul

“Kathryn Bromwich is a thrilling new talent.”
—Laura van den Berg, author of Ring of Night

Kathryn Bromwich is a writer and editor based in London. For more than a decade, she worked at The Guardian and The Observer, commissioning and writing articles about film, music, books, disability, chronic illness, and more.

Her work has appeared in publications including Dazed, Little White Lies, Polyester, Sight and Sound, The Independent, Time Out, and Vice.

Her debut novel, At the Edge of the Woods, was published in 2023 by Two Dollar Radio and was chosen as an American Booksellers Association “Indies Introduce” Pick.

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