Author
Bea Setton is an emerging Franco-British novelist. Her debut, Berlin, a coming-of-age story with a thriller edge, has received high praise. Mona Awad, the author of Bunny, describes the novel as "a compelling, raw, and thrillingly strange outsider tale of loneliness and deception." Lisa Halliday, the best-selling author of Asymmetry, praised the novel as "uncommonly funny, cinematically vivid, and refreshingly honest about how we deceive others and ourselves."
Berlin
US Edition Coming May 16th 2023
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Overview: A wickedly insightful, darkly funny novel in which a young woman in the grip of an existential malaise moves to a new city for a fresh start but her attempt at reinvention doesn’t quite go to plan. Channeling the modern female experience with razor-sharp observation and a trenchant wit, Berlin announces Bea Setton as an electrifying new voice for her generation.
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When Daphne arrives in Berlin, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she’d need to do the usual: make friends, acquire lovers, grapple with German and a whole new way of life. She even expected the long nights gorging alone on family-sized jars of Nutella, and the pitfalls of online dating in another language. The paranoia, the second-guessing of her every choice, the covert behaviors? Probably come with the territory.
But one night, when Daphne is alone in her apartment, something strange, unnerving and entirely unexpected intervenes, and life in bohemian Kreuzberg suddenly doesn’t seem so cool. Just how much trouble is Daphne in, and who—or what—is out to get her?
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The Guardian (London): “The unreliable narrator in this. . . debut is fascinating company. . . [Setton] writes perceptively about the destabilizing effects of vulnerability and loneliness in an unfamiliar environment. There’s also plenty of humor in Daphne’s overthinking and her cynical approach to dating. . . Setton builds her growing paranoia and sense of dread to terrific effect in this unsettling, compelling read.”
Daily Mail (London): “[An] engagingly self-conscious debut. . . our attention is firmly held by the wry wit of Daphne’s voice, as well as regular hints that she’s something of an unreliable narrator. . . the book’s success lies chiefly in its line by-line charm.”
Financial Times (London): “Berlin is wonderfully funny, and Daphne’s observations about modern life, men and the challenges facing young women always hit the nail.”
YZ Chin, author of Edge Case: “Berlin has everything you seek in a literary thriller: high-octane prose, pulse-racing observations of human foibles, and twisty jabs of humor. In Daphne, Setton has created an enthralling ‘unlikeable’ female narrator—one of my favorites!”
Liska Jacobs, author of The Pink Hotel: “A raw carnal beauty, Berlin is a brutally honest portrait of the modern millennial bell jar. Brilliant and haunting.”