'Truly original . . . deeply weird, deeply funny and deeply felt'

DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Batty and brilliant'
THE TIMES

'Very strange and very funny'
GUARDIAN

'Audaciously imagined. Slyly executed. Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird'
RACHEL YODER, author of NIGHTBITCH

'We can't remember the last time we met a character this singular or read a book this funny'
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB

'A dog whistle for the true freaks - never have I felt so seen! I loved it'
RITA BULLWINKEL, author of the Booker Prize-longlisted HEADSHOT

Linda makes $20 an hour as a content moderator, flagging comments that violate a tech conglomerate's terms and conditions. Each night, she returns to the windowless room in a garage that she rents from a family who pretend she isn't there.

But once a month, she escapes to San Francisco International Airport for a clandestine meeting on the cheapest flight out that night. Linda's secret is that she's sexually attracted to planes: their intelligent windscreens, sleek fuselages and powerful engines make her feel a way that no human lover ever could.

Linda believes her destiny is to someday 'marry' one of her suitors by dying in a plane crash, a catastrophic event that would unite her with her soulmate plane for eternity. So when her co-worker Karina invites her to join a group of women using vision boards to manifest their desires, she can't resist the chance to hasten her romantic fate. However, as the vision boards seem to manifest items more quickly - and more literally - than Linda had expected, the carefully balanced elements of her life begin to spin out of her control, and she must choose between maintaining the trappings of normalcy or launching herself headlong towards her greatest dream.

Discover what readers are saying about the wildest book you'll read this year . . .
'This book is truly unlike anything I've read before. It is strange and wild and so enjoyable'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'As soon as I saw Sky Daddy was available, I stopped everything and ran (digitally) to NetGalley to beg/plead/scream/cry for the book. It is everything I hoped it would be and more. Do yourself a favour and pick up this original and engaging book'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'This book was absolutely wild . . . I laughed out loud at parts of this and I truly had the best time with this. The concept is absurd but it made for a brilliant novel'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'This is one of my most anticipated reads of 2025 and boy did it live up to my expectations. Such a quirky book but really fascinating to read. I really loved the characters, the storyline, and just how downright weird it was! 100% recommend if you love your books weird and wild. Well done again Kate Folk!!'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

"Folk has written something truly original here: the kind of novel that startles you into remembering fiction's potential to be simultaneously deeply weird, deeply funny and deeply felt . . . Sky Daddy's deadpan humour is exquisite . . . in a fiction landscape that often bends toward the familiar and marketable, Sky Daddy reminds us that the novel's real job is to stretch the imagination to its most exhilarating limits. The best fiction doesn't just mirror desire - it deranges it, making us see the world, and ourselves, afresh'" - Daily Telegraph

"Batty and brilliant . . . Folk writes tenderly about longing, regret, how ordinary people want a life of consequence and the way tragedy can make someone sick" - The Times

"This kinky debut spices up the flourishing genre of the Millennial early-midlife crisis novel . . . a little bit JG Ballard, a little bit Ottessa Moshfegh, the surreal premise grabs you from the first page, buoyed by bright, zingy prose. Told with verve - and nerve - it's a full-throttle thrill: strap in!" - Daily Mail

"A very strange and very funny book" - Guardian