The Seed Collectors
Scarlett Thomas
“Somewhere in the world there is a magical book. What does this book do? It simply changes itself to become the book you most need at this point in your life”
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The seductive new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y, full of life, death, desire and family trees
What secrets are hiding in your family tree?
Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment …
A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world’s most daring and brilliant writers.
“Entrancing”
Neil Gaiman
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“A family saga of human fallibility, love, eccentricity, sex, spirituality, and of a lost, legendary, coincidentally lethal route to absolute transcendence … [Thomas] is a splendid novelist”
William Gibson
“Positively luminous - funny, daring, fizzing with ideas and altogether captivating”
daily Mail
“A far-out botanical adventure in ways which are brutally funny and profound all at once. Barbed, casually genius, philosophical and intensely readable. A joy”
Matt Haig
“Filthily gorgeous … Imagine Muriel Spark’s disreputable niece”
spectator
Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her other novels include Bright Young Things, PopCo, The End of Mr.Y which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, and Our Tragic Universe. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.
