Ava Anna Ada - Ali Millar

Ava Anna Ada

By: Ali Millar

Paperback | 29 April 2025 | Edition Number 1

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'Visceral and vibrant; piercingly astute'

Wendy Erskine

'A bracingly original tale of lust and malice'

Rob Doyle

'A unique and fiercely original debut novel'

The Herald

'A weird, furious, fucked-up fable'

Keiran Goddard

'A bleeding, sweating story'

Guardian

How do we live at the end of the world?

Over the course of one claustrophobic week, in an eerie, sweltering English summer somewhere in the near-future, Anna meets Ava. As Anna grieves her dead daughter, a dying landscape and a future they might have shared, Ava's mysterious pull swallows her whole. But what does Ava really want? Who are they both, really? And what are they to each other?

Braiding climate chaos, lust, politics, poetry and violence, Ava Anna Ada is a contemporary, dystopian fable, which asks us: what if the apocalypse has been and gone, and nobody noticed?

'A perverse, dark tale of shifting identities, deceit and manipulation'

Financial Times

'So striking . . . like seeing our last few years through a distorted fever-dream'

Lucy Caldwell

Industry Reviews
'AVA ANNA ADA is both brilliantly stylish and horribly unnerving... an almost impossibly elegant evocation of violence, eroticism and derangement. A weird, furious, fucked-up fable.' - Keiran Goddard

'Tense, ruthless and fevered, Ava Anna Ada is a bracingly original tale of lust and malice amidst dementing heat, general unravelling, and the late nightmares of a screaming planet.' - Rob Doyle

Love and lust are the dark forces that intertwine within Ava Anna Ada. Millar is a rare talent and has created a hypnotic, profound and mesmerising novel - Ewan Morrison

'Shocking and uncompromising, but effortlessly and unpretentiously so, Millar's writing is visceral and vibrant; piercingly astute in rendering the inner thoughts and raw emotions of her protagonists, unearthing diamonds of humanity from the mire of brutality' - Miki Berenyi

'A work of exquisite strangeness, Ava Anna Ada is unsettling and arresting. It moves from character to character, page to page, with beguiling relentlessness. Ali Millar's writing is full of dark richness and fevered heat, but also cool stringency in its exploration of grief and femininity.' - Wendy Erskine

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