Pessimism for Beginners

Hannah Sophie

Sophie Hannah's sharp pen dissects modern life and relationships with insouciant honesty and ruthless wit, and her love poems evoke timeless feelings with a shrewd simplicity that deepens her range. An edge of desolation, tenderness – an occasional flash of cruelty – and an ebullient delight in language make this a book of bittersweet pleasures.

"Pessimism for Beginners" includes an extract from the opening chapter of Sophie Hannah's second psychological thriller, "Hurting Distance", published by Hodder & Stoughton, described by "The Times" as "a superbly creepy, twisty thriller about obsessive love, psychological torture and the darkest chambers of the human heart". In poetry and prose, Sophie Hannah is compellingly readable.

About the Author

Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester in 1971. In 2004 she was selected as one of the twenty Next Generation poets, and has now published five collections of poetry. Her crime novels have been published in more than 35 countries, and have been adapted for television in the UK. Her Hercule Poirot novel "The Monogram Murders" was published worldwide in September 2014. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and children,

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