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Sam Byers is a British novelist.He was educated at the University of East Anglia. He received the Betty Trask Award and Waterstones 11 prize for his debut novel Idiopathy.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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The Benefactors (2025)
Wendy Erskine
"In her first novel, [Erskine] revels in the possibilities of an expanded cast, yet controls the pace and framing with all the precision of a miniaturist. The result is a novel that feels like a balancing act: at once sprawling and meticulous, polyphonic and tonally coherent. The Benefactors is ambitiously structured, but functions in some ways as a short story with a novel around it. At the book's heart is a pivotal, life-altering moment. Gracefully flowing into and out of it are the day-to-day lives that the moment both springs from and distorts, rendered in a tapestry of third-person narration and unattributed interjections of monologue - a kind of community chorus, commenting and adding colour . . . Erskine's great gift is for character. Not a single figure in this novel feels contrived; all are complicatedly flawed and empathetically rendered . . . a work of great assurance and precision."
I Still Dream (2018)
J P Smythe
"A humane, thought-provoking and powerful book ... superbly orchestrated ... beautiful, involving, emotionally compelling' Adam Roberts `One of the most affecting and brilliant books I've read this year ... a huge achievement: toweringly ambitious, and yet beautifully controlled and crafted."
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