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Fourteen Days

An immensely enjoyable product of an immensely unenjoyable time, Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling and&hellip;an impressive achievement

Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners)

We like a bit of fun with our fiction, of the sort you get with Fourteen Days, a new collaborative novel set in a New York tenement in the early days of the pandemic in which a crew of acclaimed writers &mdash; including Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Emma Donoghue &mdash; each tell a different character&rsquo;s story.

A fascinating story of the &lsquo;left-behinds&rsquo;&hellip; a literary event not quite like any other

A rather intriguing puzzle box of a book&hellip; enjoyable, and has a dip-into-able quality

If you want to feel well read in double-quick time, try Fourteen Days, which is set in a New York city tenement in the early days of the pandemic. It has a novel twist (pardon the pun) - each character has been secretly written by a different author from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng

A fun, compelling game of literary who&rsquo;s who

Marie Claire, *Books to Look Out For 2024*

This &ldquo;collaborative novel&rdquo; unites writers including Celeste Ng, John Grisham and Emma Donoghue for a story set in a New York apartment building during &mdash; surprise! &mdash; Covid-19. Framed as an ode to the people who couldn&rsquo;t escape the city, there&rsquo;s a twist: it&rsquo;s deliberately unclear who wrote what

While we're really not in a rush to think about the pandemic again, we'll make an exception for Margaret Atwood. Fourteen Days is a collaborative novel edited by Atwood and Douglas Preston, and includes writing from Celeste NG and John Grisham, amongst others. In the novel, the inhabitants of a Manhattan apartment block gather on the roof and tell stories, as more neighbours join people start to form real bonds

The novel works brilliantly, partly because of the simplicity of its premise&hellip; this is a bold, imaginative idea, superbly executed

Reading Fourteen Days is like sitting by a campfire, with characters taking turns telling tales about their lives

A heart-warming and surprising narrative, Fourteen Days is an ode to the power of storytelling and human connection

Fourteen Days is more than a transient pandemic-era project. Many of these tales show that at least some lasting good came out of those bewildering times

The tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel. 
 
With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather. Gradually the tenants &ndash; some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now &ndash; become real neighbours. 
 
With each character secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood to John Grisham and Celeste Ng, Fourteen Days is a heart-warming ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. 
 
&lsquo;Immensely enjoyable&hellip; Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling&hellip; An impressive achievement&rsquo; Observer 
 
&lsquo;Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners)&rsquo; Financial Times 
 
Includes writing from: Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Erica Jong, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Doug Preston, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Meg Wolitzer and many more.

Margaret Atwood (External Editor) Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade; in 2022 Burning Questions, a selection of essays, was a Sunday Times bestseller; and in 2023, Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Douglas Preston (External Editor) Douglas Preston has published 39 books of fiction and nonfiction, of which 32 have been New York Times bestsellers, some reaching the #1 position. Two of his novels, co-written with Lincoln Child, were chosen in a National Public Radio poll of readers as being among the 100 greatest thrillers ever written. His recent nonfiction book, The Lost City of the Monkey God, was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and National Geographic magazine. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker Magazine. He worked as an editor for the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards in the U.S. and Europe, and he served as president of the Authors Guild from 2019 to 2023.

&lsquo;Compelling' Marie Claire * 'Immensely enjoyable' Observer * 'Fascinating' Red * 
 
One week into lockdown, the tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel. 
 
With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned buckets. Gradually the tenants &ndash; some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now &ndash; become real neighbours. 
 
With each character secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood to John Grisham and Celeste Ng, Fourteen Days is a heart-warming ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. 
 
&lsquo;An immensely enjoyable product of an immensely unenjoyable time, Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling&hellip; An impressive achievement&rsquo; Observer 
 
&lsquo;Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners)&rsquo; Financial Times 
 
Includes writing from: Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Erica Jong, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Doug Preston, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Meg Wolitzer and many more.

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