Marvellous, precise, poignant writing; the reader is happy to be overwhelmed. The highest talent at work

SEBASTIAN BARRY

An enthralling debut

TASH AW, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

A remarkable, beautiful tale ... Utterly new and entirely credible ... This book radiates sensuality, humour, and human truths … Swimming in the Dark is sensual and immersive, and Ludwik's sentimental education is so well described that the reader is left wanting more. You won't want to miss it

LITERARY REVIEW

Elegant, compelling and full of melancholy beauty ... I will keep it on my shelves alongside novels by Alan Hollinghurst, Edmund White and other classics in the gay canon

EVENING STANDARD

One of the most astonishing contemporary gay novels we have ever read … extraordinarily beautiful, enrapturing and poignant … Erotic, mesmeric, heart-rending and brutal, this is a masterpiece

ATTITUDE

A young Polish author who writes rather miraculously in English, of which he has magisterial and frankly, Conradian command

Guardian, Books of the Year