Sympathy

THE DEBUT OF 2017 THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT FROM ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS''A gripping odyssey into one woman''s online-addled inner life'' -- Independent''Reads likeThe Talented Mr Ripley for the 21st century'' --Vice UKAt twenty-three, AliceHare arrives in New York looking for a place to call home. Instead she finds Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer, who she begins to follow online,fixated from afar and increasingly convinced this stranger''s life holds a mirror to her own. But as Alice closes in on her ''internet twin'', fictional and real lives begin to blur, leaving a tangle of lies, blood ties and sexual encounters that cannot be erased.