The acclaimed Costa-shortlisted author of Trauma and Asylum brings us a masterful novel of psychological suspense and marriage in 1960s America

A tour de force ... Unforgettable -- Julie Myerson New York Times Patrick McGrath is one of the age's most elegantly accomplished divers into the human psyche, and in his new novel he brings us another resonant sounding from that deep well. Constance is an intricate, multi-layered and, in the end, surprisingly tender work from a master writer -- John Banville Superb ... Constance is a beautifully wrought creation who stands at the book's centre like a cool column of marble ... The New York location, not to mention Constance's neurotic flights, may put one in mind of Esther Greenwood in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. McGrath has long been a great writer of modern gothic ... Brilliant -- George Pendle Financial Times Elegant psychological thriller -- Kate Saunders The Times The foremost writer of modern, psychological gothic ... Ultimately less bleak than some of McGrath's other work, Constance confirms him as a masterful writer not just of gothic but of complex relationships in crisis Sunday Times Subtle and ingenious and provocative Spectator A stately, artful realism ... This is McGrath at his most subtle and restrained Times Literary Supplement