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The electrifying new thriller from the author of the acclaimed The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
Kepler is like you, but not like you.
With a simple touch, Kepler can move into any body, live any life – for a moment, a day or for years.
And your life could be next.
SOME PEOPLE TOUCH LIVES. OTHERS TAKE THEM. I DO BOTH.
‘Just extraordinary’ Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go
‘North’s talent shines out’ Sunday Times
‘Dazzlingly imaginative’ Sunday Mirror
‘Breathless and brilliantly original’ Love Reading
‘Destined to be one of the biggest thrillers of the year’ Rick O’Shea, radio presenter
Discover the mesmerising new novel from one of the most original new voices in modern fiction.
Also by Claire North
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
The Sudden Appearance of Hope (winner of the World Fantasy Award 2017)
The End of the Day (shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award 2017)
84K
The Gameshouse
Kepler is like you, but not like you.
With a simple touch, Kepler can move into any body, live any life – for a moment, a day or for years.
And your life could be next.
SOME PEOPLE TOUCH LIVES. OTHERS TAKE THEM. I DO BOTH.
‘Just extraordinary’ Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go
‘North’s talent shines out’ Sunday Times
‘Dazzlingly imaginative’ Sunday Mirror
‘Breathless and brilliantly original’ Love Reading
‘Destined to be one of the biggest thrillers of the year’ Rick O’Shea, radio presenter
Discover the mesmerising new novel from one of the most original new voices in modern fiction.
Also by Claire North
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
The Sudden Appearance of Hope (winner of the World Fantasy Award 2017)
The End of the Day (shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award 2017)
84K
The Gameshouse
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Reviews
Powerful, disquieting, and provocative
An intensely gripping cat and mouse game . . . Seriously I cannot get over how amazingly good Claire North is. I could have read this book forever. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August was so smart,Touch is beyond genius. This will be one of THE books of 2015. Mark my words
The quality of the writing and the dazzlingly imaginative heart of this exciting book will seduce even scifi sceptics, and keep readers absolutely hooked to the dramatic conclusion
I was totally and utterly gripped, it's just extraordinary. Absolutely mesmerising
Touch is fast, smart, cinematic and with a cracking central idea. This is absolutely destined to be one of the biggest thrillers of 2015 . . . A very, very impressive second outing
Touch is little short of a masterpiece . . . both a thought-provoking literary treatise on what makes us human, and a genre-thriller that rattles on at a breakneck pace. Excellent.
Offers readers a fast-paced, action-packed, nerve-wracking plot centered around an intense game of "cat and mouse" . . . The writing is gorgeous. As I read, my fingers were itching to underline quotes on virtually every page. The characters are richly drawn and compelling. The plot is utterly riveting. The book is pretty much perfect, is what I'm saying.
Forget all the other thrillers, this is one of the biggest things this year. Make sure you read this one.
Claire North's second novel, Touch, is perfect for fantasy lovers wanting to lose themselves in a new world. Just as in her previous book, The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August, North explores questions of gender and identity through difficult relationships and complicated emotions, all set to vivid backdrops of a strange parallel universe.
North's talent shines out
One of the cleverest, most compelling books I've read in a long time. The intoxicating voice, ingenious premise and intricate plot will have readers clamouring for a copy. Touch has bestseller written all over it and Claire North is one hell of a writer
Triumphant . . . This novel is utterly engaging, addictive, and thought-provoking . . . simply superb
As intriguing and breathless as it is brilliantly original, constantly defying expectations and a step (or two) ahead of the reader. Featuring a troubled hero who can move from body to body just by grazing someone's fingertip and who becomes the subject of a sinister assassination attempt . . . Agile, unpredictable, this one will keep you awake at night in the search for answers
A work of sparkling originality that works both as mesmerising thriller and exploration of what it means, at the most profound level, to be human
Poignant and intensely gripping
Fast-paced, imaginative . . . There is plenty of conspiracy and intrigue in this deftly paced novel, but North also poses subtle questions about identity and love. In the end, it is not power that Kepler and its nemesis are fighting over but the right to be known.
The writing is stunning; the action . . . exhilarating; the depth and emotion - always - thought-provoking and touching
A brilliantly balanced knife's edge of a book - fast-paced and thrilling, it's somehow also languorous, thoughtful, intelligently intimate . . . I am left staggered into an awed slow-clap at everything North has accomplished here. Touch is touching, horrifying, magnificent; step into it, and it will step into you.
A dark thriller that asks readers to imagine whom they would be if they could be anyone. Literally . . . This fast-paced tale starts with a bang and continues with a bunch more of them . . . The high stakes and breakneck pace of the plot will draw readers in, and the meditations on what it means to be human and to be loved will linger long after the last shot is fired