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Deep Down: the 'intimate, emotional and witty' 2023 debut you don't want to miss

Imogen West-Knights

8 Reviews

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Domestic violence, Coping with death & bereavement, Family & relationships, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage

The much-anticipated novel from Imogen West-Knights, an unmissable debut release of spring 2023

A 2023 best book to look forward to in Vogue, Bustle, GQ and the New Statesman

'A superbly observed exploration of intimacy and its failings' Megan Nolan

'West-Knights is a masterful, hilarious and humane story-teller' Olivia Sudjic

'A sharp and clear-eyed portrait of familial love and the ways it makes us mad' Monica Heisey
Billie and Tom have just lost their father. It should be a time to comfort each other, but there's always been a distance to their relationship. Determined to change this, Billie boards a flight to her brother in Paris.

Dazed by grief, the siblings spend days wandering the streets, both helping and hurting each other in the process. When their explorations lead them to the infamous Paris catacombs, they will finally be forced to face the secrets lurking in their past that illuminate the questions in their present.

Funny, moving and unexpected, DEEP DOWN is an empathetic and hard-hitting look at both the struggles and the joys of sibling relationships, and the realities of grieving the loss of someone who was already an absence.

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Praise for Deep Down: the 'intimate, emotional and witty' 2023 debut you don't want to miss

  • DEEP DOWN is a beautifully constructed and unnervingly assured debut which deeply moved and impressed me. Imogen West Knights reveals family silence and repression in a way which feels almost agonisingly true to life. There are no histrionics here, nor any glib resolutions, but a superbly observed exploration of intimacy and its failings. Not to be missed

  • I am in awe of this genius debut novel. A brilliant page-turner - I also wanted to pause every few paragraphs and read aloud as a treat for whoever happened to be sitting next to me. West-Knights is a masterful, hilarious and humane story-teller.

  • Takes the tradition of the British family novel - with all its resentment, over-drinking and passive aggression - and transcends it: Deep Down is funny, sad, tender and hopeful. A fantastic book.

  • An intimate, emotional and witty take on grief and complicated relationships

  • Deep Down is a nuanced and sensitive study of family and abuse, of the unbridgeable gulfs in communication that render us inert and helpless, of the truths we can't bear to confront, and the loyalties we can't bear to betray

  • A sensitive look at grief, families, ambition, anger and the complexity of loving and hating someone all at once. - Bookseller

  • A dry comedy that's as astute as her reported writing - and funny too - Vogue

  • As a longtime fan of Imogen West-Knight's reported pieces, I was thrilled to discover her fiction is just as charming: a sharp and clear-eyed portrait of familial love and the ways it makes us mad

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