'Stunning' i paper

'Dangerously readable' Observer

'Electrifying' Sunday Times

Novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Patrick is older than J.B., a revered film director and formerly her professor. J.B's art has been forever overseen by him, now it may overshadow his.

For days they sail in the sun, with nothing but dark water all around them. Then a storm hits, and Patrick falls off the ship.

J.B. is left alone, as the search for what happened to Patrick - and the truth about their marriage - begins.

'Magnificent' Joanna Cannon

'Compulsive' Financial Times

'I loved it' Megan Hunter

"The Anniversary is a disquieting, stunning book about marriage, art, power and creativity." - THE I PAPER

"The Anniversary is a compulsive yet redemptive book layered with nuances that will have those new to Bishop's work hunting out her backlist." - FINANCIAL TIMES

"Dangerously readable . . . If only all literary novels were this engaging and this perceptive about human nature" - THE OBSERVER

"Electrifying" - SUNDAY TIMES

"With a unique style and descriptions so real you can feel the salt-spray drift from the page, The Anniversary draws you in. Addictive and dynamic." - HEAT MAGAZINE

"The sense of foreboding increases as the narrative progresses and I found it impossible to put down. It's excellent on how a partner's resentment can grow until it explodes as if from nowhere. It's also wonderful on writing itself and how our protagonists both enable and block each other's process. I adored it." - DAILY MAIL

"Compelling and dark, a psychological thriller that makes you want to peel back the pages . . . The Anniversary lives up to the hype. For fans of Rachel Cusk and Siri Hustvedt" - Books + Publishing

"It is intelligent and literary in the best sense of the word: fluent in style, self-aware in its deployment of genre... in the metaphysical reach of this book, the writer I kept thinking of was Iris Murdoch" - Weekend Australian