'Angelica impresses first as a clever send-up of the late Victorian novel, and then becomes its own very original thing. It is engrossing, deeply moving, and — precisely because it is moving — very frightening.' —Stephen King 'Phillips's spellbinding third book cements this young novelist's reputation as one of the best writers in America, a storyteller who combines Nabokovian wit and subtlety with a narrative urgency that rivals Stephen King's... The novel thus unfolds like some infernally complex piece of origami... [A] profoundly unsettling achievement.' —The Washington Post (Best Fiction of 2007 List) 'A spectacular, ever-proliferating tale of mingled motives, psychological menace, and delicately told crises of appetite and loneliness.' —The New Yorker 'A charming novel in which old-fashioned phantoms cleverly give way to Freudian nightmares.' —The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis in 1969 and educated at Harvard. His first novel, Prague, a US bestseller, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and received The Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel. His subsequent novels, The Egyptologist and Angelica, were both bestsellers and have been translated into twenty-five languages. His most recent book is The Song Is You. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.