“A dazzling bildungsroman…[Edith Holler] affirms the author’s standing as a major literary talent.”

—Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

“Edward Carey is an extraordinary craftsman, and Edith Holler is a masterpiece.”

—Erika Swyler

From the acclaimed author of Little and The Swallowed Man comes the strange and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the mysterious figure who threatens the theater’s very survival.