Transcription : 'This may be the best novel you’ll read all year' Telegraph

Author: Lerner, Ben

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 9 April 2026 by GRANTA BOOKS in the United Kingdom.

'Smart and subtle... You'll read it, then want to read it again' - GQA writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device - a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.

What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich and impoverish our connections to each other, that store and obliterate our memories, and a moving exploration of the relationships that make us who we are.