“When I finished the last page of Christopher Coake’s amazing new novel, I set the book down with a sense of wonder. YOU CAME BACK will stay with me forever. What an incredible writer.”
—Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She’s Not There and I’m Looking Through You
“Vivid… a captivating page-turner [with] an irresistible appeal.”
—Library Journal
“Remarkable… an ambitious, wrenching debut novel… A ghost story, a psychological thriller, and a somber reflection on memory and the passage of time… There aren’t a lot of novels that can make you weep at their insights about love and loss while also keeping you up till 2 a.m., turning pages in a cold sweat.”
“Compelling… a wrenching journey through the human heart… It reads like a suspense novel and will keep you turning pages longer than is good for you. Afterward, it will leave you lying in bed in the dark, contemplating its surfeit of pain and beauty.”
—BookPage
“I would like to claim that I discovered him, but you can’t really discover writers like this: The quality of the work is so blindingly obvious that he was never going to labor in obscurity for any length of time.”
—Nick Hornby, The Believer
“Striking… With unadorned but dramatic, economical prose, Coake explores the human capacity for altruism and cowardice.”
—Publishers Weekly