Wayward

''Furious and addictive'' New York Times ''Urgent, deeply moving, wholly original'' GEORGE SAUNDERS ''A dazzling lightning bolt of a novel'' JENNY OFFILL ''Fiercely funny and deliciously subversive'' YIYUN LI ''Wayward reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad'' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ''***** If there''s any justice in the world, Spiotta''s firecracker of a novel, Wayward, will bring her the attention she very much deserves'' Lucy Scholes, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Samantha Raymond''s life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and she finds herself staring into ''the Mids'' - hours of supreme wakefulness when women of a certain age contemplate their lives. For Sam, this means motherhood, mortality and the state of an unravelling