'Filled with explosive intelligence and dark humour, Sympathy is both beautiful and raw, and captures the essence of personal responsibility in the digital age'

Elle, Author to Watch 2017

'The best fictional account I've read of the way the internet has shaped our inner lives. A literary thriller that confirms the arrival of a major new talent'

Observer, Fiction to Look out for in 2017

'A novel examining the interaction of technology and self'

The Lady, Must-reads for 2017

'A tale of obsession and doubling in the digital age'

Bookanista, Spring 2017 Highlights

'The reason to read this novel, aside from the au courant topic, is the luscious, absorbing writing'

Library Journal

'In this unbelievably accomplished first novel, Olivia Sudjic creates a narrator whose compelling voice is timeless, even as her obsessions and the tools she uses to satisfy them are up-to-the-minute modern. At once a riveting mystery and a literary tour de force. Sympathy had me spellbound from the first page to the last'

Emily Gould, author of Friendship

'Olivia Sudjic elegantly explores the warped world of intimacies formed online - and how quickly those intimacies derail. Global in scope, as subtle as it is suspenseful, Sympathy is an extraordinary debut'

Idra Novey, author of Ways to Disappear

'Getting to know someone has always been a thorny affair. With the addition of personal devices the line between bonding and surveillance has become freakishly blurred. Sympathy is a mind-bending novel that skillfully depicts the bizarre interplay of technology and intimacy with a story that is compassionate, funny, and incredibly alarming'

Claire-Louise Bennet, author of Pond

'An impressive debut. Complex, crisp and highly topical'

Vesna Goldsworthy, author of Gorsky and Chernobyl Strawberries

'A dark, nuanced, fantastical and thrilling debut novel, posing questions of reality vs. fiction and exploring the ways that infatuation causes us to lose ourselves'

Chloe Caldwell, author of Women and I'll Tell You in Person