Sophie Ward

Rachel and Eliza are hoping to have a baby. The couple spend many happy evenings together planning for the future. One night Rachel wakes up screaming and tells Eliza that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there. She knows it sounds mad - but she also knows it''s true. As a scientist, Eliza won''t take Rachel''s fear seriously and they have a bitter fight. Suddenly their entire relationship is called into question. Inspired by some of the best-known thought experiments in philosophy, particularly philosophy of mind, Love and Other Thought Experiments is a story of love lost and found across the universe.

Finalista del Premio Booker 2020 Una deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la filosofía, la pérdida y la naturaleza de la realidadRachel y Eliza quieren tener un bebé. Durante muchas tardes felices, la

Finalista del Premio Booker 2020 Una deslumbrantenovela sobre el amor, la filosofía, la pérdida y la naturaleza de la realidadRachel y Eliza quieren tener un bebé. Durante muchas tardes felices, la pareja hace planes de futuro.Una noche, Rachel se despierta entre gritos y le cuenta a Eliza que se le ha metido una hormiga en el ojo y se ha quedado dentro. Es consciente de que parece una locura, pero tambien sabe que es verdad. Como cientifica, Eliza no se toma en serio el miedo de Rachel yambas se enzarzan en una amarga pelea. De pronto, toda su relacion se tambalea.Narrada en diez capitulosinterconectados aunque independientes -cada uno desde la perspectiva de un personaje distinto- e inspirada en algunos de los experimentos mentales mas conocidos de la filosofia, en particular de la filosofia de la mente, Amor y otros experimentos mentales es una historia de amor perdido y encontrado a lo largo del universo.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020Longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize 2020Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2021Featuring on BBC 2s Between the CoversSophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes like a modern-day F Scott Fitzgerald Elizabeth Day, author of How To FailAn act of such breath-taking imagination, daring and detail that the journey we are on is believable and the debate in the mind non-stop. There are elements of Doris Lessing in the writing - a huge emerging talent here Fiona ShawA towering literary achievementRuth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost ThingsRachel and Eliza are planning their future together. One night in bed Rachel wakes up terrified and tells Eliza that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there. Rachel is certain; Eliza, a scientist, is sceptical. Suddenly their entire relationship is called into question. What follows is a uniquely imaginitive sequence of interlinked stories ranging across time, place and perspective to form a sparkling philosophical tale of love, lost and found across the universe.

A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impactTelegraphA literary provocateurGuardianSHORTLISTED for the POLARI PRIZE 2023WINNER of DIVA Magazines 2023 Author of the Year AwardIsobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines and doesnt let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher send her spiralling and bring back the trauma of what happened years ago, when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse. The Schoolhouse was a 1970s experimental school where Isobels days were a dark interplay of freedom and adventure, violence and fear. The only record of what happened there lies in the pages of her teenage diary. The Schoolhouse taught Isobel that some truths must never be revealed, but as police investigating the missing girl start to ask uncomfortable questions, she realises the truth is coming for her - and it will put her, and everyone she has tried to protect, at risk.From the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments comes a masterful and gripping thriller about truth, silence, and the dead weight of the past.

Ward fleshes out her real-life characters with complete conviction, deftly threading their own words into the fabric of her fictionFINANCIAL TIMESOur Better Natures is a stunning meditation on hope, its fragile insistence, driven by Sophie Wards singular wit and astounding philosophical playfulness. It cements Wards place as one of our most inventive, inquisitive, & alert novelists working todayMARGOT DOUAIHYOur Better Natures is potent and beguiling. It makes one see with a better eyeLAURA CARLINOur Better Natures is an absolute marvel - a marvel of ideas, full of intellectual delights; a marvel of construction that propels us toward the most unexpected - and inevitable - outcomes; a marvel of writing, elegant, poised, wise, achingly beautiful at times, but never pulling focus from the stories of the three women and the people around them; and a marvel of compassion. A truly magnificent creation NANCY CRANEAmid the chaos and political upheaval of 1970s America, three very different women must accept the world as it is, or act to change it. Phyllis Patterson is a housewife in White Plains, Illinois. Her son Jimmy returns to the family home from Vietnam with a Korean wife and two children. Blindsided by these new additions, particularly her curious granddaughter, Soozie, Phylliss small-town world is turned upside down in more ways than she could have ever imagined.Andrea Dworkin is an activist in Amsterdam. Having fled her abusive husband and their life together, she finds herself desperate for answers, for herself and the world around her. An encounter with Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault at their infamous Dutch debate provokes her burgeoning independence. Returning to America she will embody a revolution, no matter the price.Muriel Rukeyser is a poet in New York. Despite protestations from her lover, Monica, Muriel insists on campaigning against injustice, using her words as weapons and pushing her body to its limits. In this era of political unrest, Muriels life stands as a testament to the possibility of creative resistance. A single postcard from an imprisoned writer thousands of miles away will unite these women in the fight for a world they believe in.Full of compassion, imagination and rich storytelling, Our Better Natures is a powerful novel about language, connection and freedom.