Last Night in Montreal
20 August 2026Synopsis
‘Last Night in Montreal is literary crime fiction of the highest order’ - The Sunday Times
The stunning novel about life on the run, the debut novel of the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel.
Lilia has always been an enigma. When she disappears without trace, her lover Eli follows a mysterious trail of correspondence to Montreal, where he hopes to discover the truth. But this isn’t the first time Lilia has disappeared, or someone has tried to find her . . .
Last Night in Montreal is a breathtakingly plotted and intelligent game of cat-and-mouse; between lovers, between detectives and trails, and of lost people attempting to capture the elusive truth of their own lives.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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20 August 2026
9781035097968Reviews
Last Night in Montreal is literary crime fiction of the highest order. It is unusual to encounter a novel that so vividly creates a sense of life on the run . . . Intense and lyrical, the novel asks unsettling questions about who is the real victim of the tragedy that looms over the characters.
Mandel is an exuberant storyteller
Finely wrought . . . What we're made to ponder is the mystery of human connection: how it is born, how it fades and dies and revives, how love defines us or leaves us undone
Taut, gripping . . . elegantly compelling
