Anyone's Ghost
19 June 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'This new novel is a real heart-squeezer' - Matt Berninger of The National
'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times
'Electric' - Vogue
IT TOOK THREE CAR CRASHES TO KILL JAKE
The first crash. New Hampshire. Teenagers Theron and Jake meet in the heat of the summer. Jake is everything Theron wants to be – hot, cool, interesting. Drunk in Jake’s van on their last...
Details
19 June 2025400 pages
9781035034109Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Anyone's Ghost is about so very many things: the pains of growing up, friendship and pining, drugs, sex, the frustrations of masculinity and the thrill of testing death itself. But more than any of that, it is an overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cryJonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated
You know those books that you take with you everywhere? That you won’t stop talking about to your friends? That bring it all back? That change you? Anyone’s Ghost is that book. Thompson has fired a literary flare into the black night of the universe and the illumination is spectacular.Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Genuinely powerful The Irish Times
This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titledMatt Berninger, frontman of The National
