Look What You Made Me Do
A Novel
12 May 2026
Territory Rights — Worldwide, excluding Canada, the British Commonwealth and the European Union.
Description
A propulsive tale of intergenerational tension and revenge from the Booker Prize nominee.
"Every successful marriage has its own private language." So it is for baby boomer Kate and her beloved architect husband Jack, thirty years into their seemingly idyllic metropolitan North London life. And so it is for spiky millennial screenwriter Phoebe and her charming loafer of a partner, Tony.
But when Phoebe’s steamy television series Cheating becomes the year’s most talked-about show, Kate thinks she sees in it details and intimacies of her marriage that only she and her husband could possibly have known. Who has betrayed whom? Who has stolen whose story—and why?
A black comedy of love, trust, resentment, and entitlement, Look What You Made Me Do is the sharply observed and suspenseful story of two very different women from two very different generations, entangled in a battle only one of them can win.
Reviews
"[A] twisty novel of deceit and comeuppances. . . . Lanchester is a magnetic writer who combines the skills of a social realist with this penchant for Nabokovian black humor and narrative trickery." — Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
"[A] well-knit dark domestic fiction that enfolds the reader quickly and comfortably, like an expensive cashmere scarf. . . . [A] deft piece of what the British call hen lit, pecked out by a cockerel who knows his way around the coop." — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times Book Review
"Twisty, clever, and gleefully nasty." — The Times
"A black comedy of entitlement and generational resentment set amid the metropolitan elite." — Guardian
"An entertaining book with an unflinching ending, which makes powerful points about the ways in which boomers have screwed millennials and continue to do so." — Financial Times
"Well-plotted . . . . Lanchester blends the emotionally layered revenge story with a satirical battle of the generations. . . . This satisfies." — Publishers Weekly
"Good, mean fun. . . . [An] ingeniously plotted page-turner." — The Bookseller
"An absolute riot. It’s both a black comedy of revenge and entitlement and a complex portrait of millennial/boomer conflict." — The Observer
"Reads with the inevitability of a classical tragedy. . . . Lanchester is an eminently skilled storyteller with a gift for laying in bits of backstory along the way that subvert what we think we know is going on . . . A splendidly twisted tale of love and vengeance. " — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A gleamingly accomplished black comedy. . . This ingenious whodunnit (and howdunnit) twists through a panorama of present-day London life. . . Lanchester winningly reactivates the sharp-eyed, keen-eared social satire that sizzled through Capital. . . A superbly well-crafted and immensely funny novel." — Literary Review
"Not since Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier has there been such a nasty little tale about a marriage. . . It shimmers with the author’s characteristic black humour. Its pacing and suspense mean that you are captivated by a high-wire act between literary and commercial fiction. . . This cat-and-mouse game between two clever, sardonic women protagonists will be devoured by streaming audiences as well as book groups." — Spectator
"This dark comedy about the clash between the generations is set to be a great succès de scandale." — Tatler
"The Booker-longlisted author makes a punchy return with this darkly comic, Black Mirror-style novel." — The Times (UK)
"If Phoebe Waller-Bridge had a score to settle." — Stylist
"Couples facing upheaval, from romantic to criminal, are under the microscope in Whitbread award-winning Lanchester’s unusual thriller. . . . Twists come into play to bring the stories together and the ending, which takes the 'dish best served cold' to incredible extremes, is both satisfying and strikingly strange." — Henrietta Thornton, First Clue
"A great read. A box of delights which is also a thrilling satirical torture chamber." — Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession
"I love his books." — Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club series
"A highly enjoyable novel full of memorable characters and Machiavellian scheming." — Daily Mail
"A pacy tale of treachery, deceit and deranged grief within a comedy about bitter resentment and generational rivalry." — The Independent
"A deliciously twisted contemporary Jacobean revenge drama, revolving around the battle between two compelling anti-heroines. I hope Netflix picks it up." — Mail on Sunday
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