'The future of literature is in exceptional, inspired hands'
Michael Cunningham, author of Day

'Extraordinary . . . so remarkable'
Daily Telegraph

'The debut everyone's talking about'
Daily Mail

'One of the best new books I've read not only this year but in some time'
New Yorker

'The book everyone will be talking about this winter'
Stylist

Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, Suzanna spends every Saturday visiting Hillcrest Prison, a place her mother will never leave.

At home, Suzanna is raised by her grandmother, who is unforgiving of her daughter's crime and refuses to visit the prison. Surrounding Suzanna are her grandmother's friends, who know one another from their years in the Communist Party. These women once insisted on changing the world, but are now torn between teaching Suzanna how the world works and shielding her from it.

Suzanna vows to return to the prison forever, but her mother wants her to be free. Told with irreverent wisdom and visionary force, The Hill is an incandescent novel of a child growing up between worlds, and of a family broken apart by the desire for change.

'I have never read a book that captures the experience of growing up so precisely'
Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger

'I don't know how Clark wrote The Hill, but I know I'll be rereading it for the rest of my life'
Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

'Equal parts comedy of coming of age and Sebaldian rumination. Lady Bird meets The Emigrants. I loved it'
Brandon Taylor, author of Minor Black Figures

"A beautiful debut . . . a tour de force" - Publishers Weekly

"One of the funniest books I have read in a while, with deadpan one-liners, bitterly comic in the way only someone aware of the stakes can make a joke" - Harper's Bazaar

"The book is an eerie, dreamlike, funny, psychologically acute fable crossed with a nineteenth-century novel (unexpressed ardor, letters burned unread, train rides, consequences), a portrait of childhood to rival What Maisie Knew." - Paris Review

"One of the best new books I've read not only this year but in some time . . . I recommend it to everyone" - New Yorker

"Want to get a head start on the book everyone will be talking about this winter? With fans like Naomi Klein and Tara Westover, The Hill by Harriet Clark is the new release to put on your radar. A coming-of-age story that explores prison and protest, it's an important read that'll make you laugh, cry and think" - Stylist

"This unique, lyrical literary novel is a deep dive into mother-daughter relationships, freedom and forgiveness" - Good Housekeeping

"The Hill is a superior study of loneliness . . . devastatingly naturalistic but mythic in its reach, The Hill is a Bildungsroman so remarkable in both its subject and its execution that the closest comparison that springs to mind is Marilynne Robinson's magisterial Housekeeping . Clark has written a novel about freedom and confinement, agency and choice, and what these states of being look like to different people . . . this is a story of the horrors of family separation and estrangement, and what it means to be a vulnerable minor caught in the middle of these dramas, watching, listening, trying to understand the world, and one's place in it. But mostly, The Hill is about a child's ongoing efforts to make sense of what to them is their ordinary, known life, but what to others might seem like an extraordinary, singularly strange experience." - Daily Telegraph

"The debut everyone's talking about . . . this quietly intense, tightly focused debut, praised by such luminaries as Jeffrey Eugenides and Tara Westover, revolves around the twin poles of its young narrator's world . . . every page feels authentic" - Daily Mail

"Strikingly original . . . a coming-of-age story that is by turns funny, sad and quietly shocking, it pairs dreamy prose with an arresting turn of phrase, asking questions about freedom, family ties and the nature of home" - Mail on Sunday