Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics is an unforgettable debut novel that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock: a darkly hilarious coming-of-age tale and a richly plotted suspense story, told with dazzling intelligence and wit.
‘I wrote this account one year after I’d found Hannah Dead.
I thought I’d managed to erase all traces of that night within myself.
But I was wrong.
Every night when I tried to sleep, I’d close my eyes and see her again, exactly…





