The Watermark

"This time-hopping meta-fiction has the madcap energy of a Philip K. Dick story ... Mills's protagonists treat their absurd bind with absolute seriousness. Farce on the outside, tragedy within."
—The Times (London)

“Playful, romantic and very, very clever. Like Inception for book-lovers. Sam Mills packs more ideas into one work of metafiction than most writers would manage in several lifetimes.”—Clare Pollard

“The Watermark is such a thrilling and original novel: an existential mystery, a love story, an absurdist quest. A mock-cautionary tale about the permeable boundaries between reality and fiction. A fabulous story about stories… Richly imagined, wild and wise.” —Joanna Kavenna

“The Watermark is a story about stories, an ingenious genre-tumble through literature, artistic expression, free-will, and how far—how deep—we will go for love. A compulsively readable, dizzyingly inventive novel that is both gloriously immense, and immensely, heart-wrenchingly intimate.” —Glen James Brown