under one of the country’s most rigorous academic programmes. She is a graduate of the prestigious Warwick Writing MA in the UK, and worked as a screenwriter and journalist.
Clytemnestra is her debut novel. It has sold into 18 territories worldwide, is a Saturday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award.
Casati's new novel is Babylonia.
At the Guardian she tagged "five novels featuring some of my favourite literary threesomes." One title on the list:
An American Marriage by Tayari JonesRead about another entry on the list.
Jones’s novel focuses on newlyweds Roy and Celeste, whose relationship shatters when Roy is falsely accused of rape. While he serves time, Celeste grows closer toher childhood friend and sweetheart, Andre. Then Roy comes home, and chaos ensues. The love that the characters feel for one another is constantly destabilised by the fear that something could take away what they have.
An American Marriage is among Isabelle McConville's top ten Taylor Swift song-to-book recommendations, Robin Kirman's seven novels told from both members of a couple, Christopher Louis Romaguera's nine books about mistaken identity, Scarlett Harris's eight classic and contemporary novels, written by women, that offer insight into damaged male psyches, Tochi Onyebuchi's seven books about surviving political & environmental disasters, Ruth Reichl's six novels she enjoyed listening to while cooking, Brad Parks's top eight books set in prisons, Sara Shepard's six top stories of deception,and Julia Dahl's ten top books about miscarriages of justice.
--Marshal Zeringue
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