Burn and Rave: A Novel
Feb 2027 · Sold by Penguin
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From the bestselling author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, the uproarious and brilliantly inventive new novel from Max Porter.
Quiet on set, please.
Enter Lynette: Actor, writer, director, showrunner, and star of her final movie in her head—is it a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, or . . . just life?
Her more recent roles include: The ex-wife (he left for a younger woman); sixty-something daughter to dead parents; sister to dead siblings (they haunt her sometimes); mother to a long-suffering daughter; furious owner of the world’s best-behaved dog. Oh, and a force of nature.
Here’s what else you need to know about Lynette:
It’s her birthday, and she’s waking up in a hotel room, hungover, in a dreary English seaside town. Outside are gray skies, crazy golf, a row of border defense huts.
She hasn’t worked in a while (she hasn’t been very well). But maybe you recognize her from that television drama that ran and ran? People often do.
Rising this morning, she has one thing on her mind: to meet and slay the ghosts of the past and the ills of today. And, knowing Lynette, she won’t go gentle into that good night.
Quiet on set, please.
Enter Lynette: Actor, writer, director, showrunner, and star of her final movie in her head—is it a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, or . . . just life?
Her more recent roles include: The ex-wife (he left for a younger woman); sixty-something daughter to dead parents; sister to dead siblings (they haunt her sometimes); mother to a long-suffering daughter; furious owner of the world’s best-behaved dog. Oh, and a force of nature.
Here’s what else you need to know about Lynette:
It’s her birthday, and she’s waking up in a hotel room, hungover, in a dreary English seaside town. Outside are gray skies, crazy golf, a row of border defense huts.
She hasn’t worked in a while (she hasn’t been very well). But maybe you recognize her from that television drama that ran and ran? People often do.
Rising this morning, she has one thing on her mind: to meet and slay the ghosts of the past and the ills of today. And, knowing Lynette, she won’t go gentle into that good night.
From the bestselling author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, the uproarious and brilliantly inventive new novel from Max Porter.
Quiet on set, please.
Enter Lynette: Actor, writer, director, showrunner, and star of her final movie in her head—is it a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, or . . . jus...
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About the author
Max Porter is an award-winning novelist whose books have been translated into thirty-eight languages. His debut, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, was a Sunday Times Top 100 Novel of the 21st Century, and won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, and the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Grief became a film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as well as a stage production starring Cillian Murphy at the St Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, where it was a New York Times Critics’ Pick. His Sunday Times top ten bestselling novel Lanny was longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Wainwright Prize. His novel Shy was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller, and inspired the Netflix film Steve, for which Porter wrote the BAFTA-nominated screenplay. In 2020, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2025 he chaired the judging panel for the International Booker Prize 2025. Porter lives in Bath, England, with his family.
Max Porter is an award-winning novelist whose books have been translated into thirty-eight languages. His debut, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, was a Sunday Times Top 100 Novel of the 21st Century, and won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, and the International ...
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