Why We Love it:

'A love story as written by Lewis Carroll and Charlie Kaufman. Jaime and Rachel are fated lovers, invited to the home of a legendary, reclusive author, who promptly drugs them and inserts them into his writing so that they may inspire his characters. Their only escape is to to jump through stories, from Dickensian Oxford to a Nick Hornby-esque Manchester, a Russian folk tale to a science-fiction future. Wildly imaginative and craftily detailed, The Watermark explores how love can heal and change us, and asks whether the stories we tell ourselves can conspire to change our fate. '

- Sam, Co-Founder of Max Minerva's

About the Book:

Rachel and Jaime: their story isn't simple. It might not even be their story. Augustus Fate, a once-lauded novelist and now renowned recluse, is struggling with his latest creation.

But when Jaime and Rachel stumble into his remote cottage, he spies opportunity, imprisoning them inside his novel-in-progress. Now, the fledgling couple must try to find their way back home through a labyrinthine network of novels. 'And as they move from Victorian Oxford to a utopian Manchester, a harsh Russian winter to an AI-dominated near-future, so too does the narrative of their relationship change time and again.

Together, they must figure out if this relationship of so many presents can have any future at all. The Watermark is a heart-stopping exploration of the narratives we cling to in the course of a life, and the tendency of the world to unravel them. Kaleidoscopic and wildly imaginative, it asks: how can we truly be ourselves, when Fate is pulling the strings?