From the global bestselling author of Station Eleven comes a story of the broken boundaries between parallel worlds and a single party that links two very different versions of reality.

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel's new mind-bending epic: a story of crimes committed and loves lost across space and time.

Details

ISBN13: 9781035081295
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 320
Edition:
Publication Date: 15 Sep 2026
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 23.5(H)x15.6(L)x2.5(W)404
Weight (gm): 404

Author Biography

Emily St. John Mandel is the author of seven novels. Station Eleven was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. It also won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award and the Morning News Tournament of Books. The Glass Hotel was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Translated into thirty-four languages, Station Eleven was made into an acclaimed limited TV series. Emily St. John Mandel lives in New York City and Los Angeles.

Reviews

Ambitious and captivating . . . the novel will rightly entrance new readers while gripping Mandel's existing ones. Exit Party feels like the culmination of her career so far, combining the thrills and mysteries of the author's early crime novels with the expansive premises and speculative ruminations of later novels like Station Eleven -- The New York Times
She deftly creates emotional resonance through events that feel like a slanted take on our own times . . . Exit Party, like much of her work, makes the case for relishing small moments of joy, frightening as the world is -- The Guardian
Over the course of seven novels, Mandel has established herself as one of the most fascinating writers of speculative fiction . . . What is it to be human, she asks, in a world quite so heavily controlled? An amazing book by an amazing writer -- The i Paper
This kind of emotional depth is rare. Mandel's triumph here is to take genre tropes and create something new from them. Literary science fiction of the highest standard -- SFX
Beautifully written . . . One of the joys of her novels is that though you frequently have no idea where the story is travelling, you have confidence as a reader that it is moving towards a clear resolution. It is not that all loose ends are neatly tied but you know there is a destination . . . St John Mandel is a beautiful writer. Reading her work is like slipping into a warm pool . . . there are times when she calls to mind Paul Auster and his characters dancing to the music of chance -- Financial Times
An Emily St. John Mandel novel is always cause for excitement . . . Another kaleidoscopic, genre-and-planet-spanning jewel of a book. I’ll let her take me everywhere and anywhere. -- Emily Temple, LitHub
A glittering puzzle box of a novel . . . [The] novel brilliantly ties the notion of parallel timelines to a political theme, positing a dark twinship between chaos and totalitarianism. . . . This is [Mandel’s] best novel since Station Eleven, a cause for rejoicing among her fans and an inspiration for newbies to dive into the backlist. Both a thrilling read and a virtuoso demonstration of the moral and philosophical possibilities of speculative fiction -- Kirkus (Starred Review)
Mandel always writes with clarity and precision. Her perceptive new dystopian novel explores what is lost in a rush to safety; it’s a hymn to what falls when the center doesn’t hold -- Library Journal (Starred Review)
As ever in her own wholly original and singular way, Mandel offers up a completely compelling, richly rendered yarn that's sure to generate both major interest and discussion -- Booklist (Starred Review)
Masterful . . . a dizzying story of doubles and parallel universes. Mandel's assured tale offers bracing commentary on the dangers of divisiveness and surveillance, and the propulsive plot is fueled by the unfolding mystery of the initiating party scene. It's a tour de force -- Publishers Weekly