'Shipstead's sophisticated and summery debut more than lives up to the hype' Independent
'Distinctive and dazzling ... The world has found a remarkable, humane new voice to explain us to ourselves' Allison Pearson, Telegraph
'A wise, sophisticated and funny novel about family, fidelity, class and crisis' Marie Claire
Maggie Shipstead graduated from Harvard in 2005 and earned an M.F.A at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was also a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her debut novel, Seating Arrangements, won the Dylan Thomas Prize and the LA Times Prize for First Fiction. Astonish Me is her second novel.