Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester

Have you seen Cheating?

Do you think it’s as good as everyone says? Better than Succession, White Lotus, Dallas, the Old Testament, Tolstoy?

What do you make of the younger girlfriend? Is she really supposed to be as horrible as she seems? Do you think you’re supposed to hate the wife? And are you supposed to like the husband? Because I can’t stand him.

Actually, is there a single person in it you don’t hate – or is sort of the point? Are the boomers worse than the millennials, or is it the other way round? Who’s more oblivious, more spoilt? What’s she going to do when she finds out? She won’t find out, will she-

Imagine the most intimate parts of your marriage stolen and turned into the subject of the year’s hottest TV sensation. How would you take it? Turn the other cheek? Or play the revenge game? Surely, you wouldn’t go as far as this.

From the bestselling author of Capital comes this satirical psychological thriller – think the acid black wit of Jesse Armstrong or Jonathan Coe meets Notes on a Scandal by way of the British middleclass.

About the Author: John Lanchester has written five novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips, Fragrant Harbour, Capital, and The Wall and three works of non-fiction: Family Romance, a memoir; Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, about the global financial crisis; and How to Speak Money, a primer in popular economics. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker.

12 Mar 2026
 

Look What You Made Me Do: From the bestselling author of Capital by John Lanchester ISBN 9780571298679