Christopher Priest is the Arthur C. Clarke Award and World Fantasy Award-winning
author of THE SEPARATION, THE GLAMOUR, THE DREAM ARCHIPELAGO and THE PRESTIGE,
which was filmed by Christopher Nolan and starred Hugh Jackman and Christian Bal
e. THE AFFIRMATION is his compulsive and original novel of an autobiography that
isn't - partly a thriller, partly a haunting study of schizophrenia, it is the
mark of one of Britain's finest novelists at the very height of his powers.
P
eter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure
some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself
writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious a
ttraction draws him even further in ...