The Great Night (Paperback)

Chris Adrian is the most extraordinary novelist you've never heard of. The book is surprisingly, very funny. And moving. And quite unlike anything I've read so far this century...If you're willing to enter something magical, something dazzling and heartbreaking, then Adrian is a writer for you. - Patrick Ness, Guardian

Bewitching... This magical and fearless work is a near-blueprint of what a novel ought to be - Olivia Laing, Observer

A work of sustained imagination. Interweaving stories and situations that are in turn kitsch, camp, wry and heartbreaking ... a profoundly humane and moving work - Adam O’Riordan, Sunday Telegraph

A fabulous, crazy, imaginative journey - Viv Groskop, Daily Telegraph

A beguiling, troubling and undeniably potent brand of fiction ... His writing is evocative and unsettling in equal measure ... Adrian gets under your skin and stays there - Jake Wallis Simons, Independent on Sunday

This wonderful novel is much more than a simple adaptation ... In Adrian's hands this is a play about grief. The saddest and most lovely scenes of this sad and lovely book are those in which the fairy queen waits in a San Francisco hospital. Her child is sick, and her magic cannot save him ...Heartbreak too waits behind the experiences of the young lovers Henry, Molly and Will. "I cannot straighten the paths you make crooked with your dreams," one of the fairies tells one of the mortals, and this is what Adrian has taken most powerfully from the play: the sad knowledge that heartbreak and love are necessary transformations, ones we need but cannot control - Daniel Swift, Financial Times

Adrian has an extraordinary imagination as well as talent to burn ... It's spellbinding to see Adrian reshaping Shakespeare's narrative to his own ends - Alastair Mabbott, Herald