Críticas
Lush, evocative and sexy . . . A truly impressive debut novel -- The Sunday Times
A deft work of fiction . . . Sy-Quia is wonderfully interested in beauty, conveying it with a poet’s gift for compression and echo . . . A novel stiff with tension, with sorrow, fear and disappointment wound into its most ecstatic and transcendent moments -- Alex Clark, The Observer
I loved A Private Man.Sy-Quia writes beautifully and energetically about faith and food and clothes and sex. Her prose embraces beauty and her characters are complex and compelling. It’s a rare pleasure to read this novel -- Sarah Moss, author of Ripeness
A rich, elegant and textured novel full of quiet, beautiful revolutions, which sparks with erotic friction. A Private Man is a brilliant debut about secrets and belief, about the collision of lives, and about the liberation of being remade -- Seán Hewitt, author of Open, Heaven
A Private Man is a warm, tender novel, written with such beauty and precision that it frequently stopped me in my tracks. I read it slowly, carefully, marvelling at an image, savouring each glint and turn -- Alex Hyde, author of Violets
Beautiful . . . A story of slow-burn romance, but also of hard-won friendship, the novel explores faith, duty and love. I couldn't put it down. -- 'Best books of 2026', The Independent
A finely crafted story, recognisably written by a poet, with a crystal-clear trajectory and moral position ― New Statesman
Finely wrought . . . A heady brew, serious and ruminative yet pulsing with sensuality ― Daily Mail
Inspired by the author’s grandparents, Stephanie Sy-Quia’s assured debut traces a blazing, illicit romance between a Catholic priest and a feminist theologian in England during the social upheavals of the 1960s -- Hamilton Cain, TIME
A luminous, deeply thoughtful and moving love story. Breathtakingly honest and true on sex, on art, on the analogy between religious and corporeal pleasure, A Private Man is also a meditation on care, faith, doubt and loss. A beautiful and wise novel -- Luke Kennard, author of Black Bag
A Private Man is truly outstanding: clever, passionate and as clean as a bone -- Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley
Stephanie Sy-Quia's novel takes the truly singular story of a truly singular soul and makes it into something approachable, understandable and familiar. This is a novel brimming with empathy, tenderness and wisdom -- Aidan Cottrell-Boyce, author of The End of Nightwork
A thrilling true tale . . . A love story of intellect and passion ― The Observer
Inspired by the author’s grandparents, Stephanie Sy-Quia’s assured debut traces a blazing, illicit romance between a Catholic priest and a feminist theologian in England during the social upheavals of the 1960s ― Hamilton Cain, TIME
The brilliance of the environment, and the luster of Ms. Sy-Quia’s writing, sets the stage for the novel’s illicit love story, which the author has based on the marriage of her grandparents ― The Wall Street Journal
Biografía del autor
Stephanie Sy-Quia’s first book of poetry, Amnion, won the 2021 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, an Eric Gregory Award, and a Somerset Maugham Award. It was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Laurel Prize, and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Boston Review, The White Review, Five Dials and Granta, among others. She lives in London.
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