'A full-throttle thrill: strap in!'
Daily Mail
A CLASSIC STORY OF GIRL MEETS PLANE.
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, VOX, OPRAH DAILY, VULTURE, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, ELECTRIC LIT, DEBUTIFUL, BOOK RIOT, PEN AMERICA, AND THE SKINNY

'Batty and brilliant'
THE TIMES

'Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird'
RACHEL YODER, author of NIGHTBITCH

'Wonderfully weird and worryingly convincing'
CHARLOTTE MENDELSON, author of THE EXHIBITIONIST

'A little bit JG Ballard, a little bit Ottessa Moshfegh'
DAILY MAIL

Linda tries her best to lead a normal life. But once a month she escapes to the airport to secretly indulge in her true passion: Linda is sexually attracted to planes, and believes it is her destiny to someday marry one by dying in a fiery crash.

When the opportunity arises to hasten her romantic fate, Linda must choose between the trappings of an ordinary life and succumbing to her deepest desires.

'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

Fasten your seatbelts, and get ready for this year's wildest ride
'I've never related more to a fictional character'
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'Best book I've read in a few years!'
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'I hate how much I love this book'
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'Weird and different and clever and beautiful and moving and funny and I honestly can't recommend it enough'
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'It rearranged my brain a little bit'
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'The most surprising read of the year so far . . . embrace the weirdness'
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'Weird, but in amazing ways'
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"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

"Sky Daddy is a love story, but one we're willing to bet is unlike any love story you've previously encountered . . . as poignant as it is bizarre" - Time

"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

"Girl-meets-plane . . . thanks to novels like Sky Daddy, the right to staggering strangeness, moral messiness, is finally being extended to female characters, too. What's more, they're proving that the topics of women's bodies, and what we want to do with them, are as loaded as ever." - i

"Sleek and darkly comical . . . Folk is a dryly funny writer, with the melancholic wit and whimsy of Miranda July . . . Folk's deft navigation between sardonic optimism and buoyant fatalism is perfectly calibrated to the utter strangeness of being alive today" - Boston Globe

"Kate Folk has an idiosyncratic, spare style that is well suited to her truly odd, ridiculous, inexplicably poignant subject matters . . . buckle up, it's one hell of a ride" - Literary Hub

"Folk fuses Moby-Dick with J. G. Ballard's Crash for a blistering debut novel about a woman's sexual and mortal obsession with airplanes . . . The allure of an inanimate object has seldom been so touchingly rendered than in Folk's wry, tender, and sweetly odd narrative. It's an unforgettable ode to the pursuit of desire" - Publishers Weekly

"Far and away one of the most audacious and surprisingly feel-good books that 2025 has to offer" - Polygon

"Folk - following up her memorably weird and innovative story collection, Out There (2022) - displays a masterful command over Linda's mindset and thought processes in her first-person narration . . . An utterly confident and endearing portrait of a woman unlike anyone readers have met before" - Kirkus

"A subversive and touching love story" - Language Arts

"I finished the book with a renewed sense of humanity" - Condé Nast Traveler

"Sly, clever . . . Linda is part Ahab, part Ishmael, and her white whale is the first plane she ever fell in love with. This is a strange and tender novel, and it has lingered in my mind for months" - Vox