Fourteen Days: An irresistible read from a star-studded cast of writers

An immensely enjoyable product of an immensely unenjoyable time, Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling and…an impressive achievement ― Observer

Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners) ― Financial Times

We like a bit of fun with our fiction, of the sort you get with Fourteen Days, a new collaborative novel set in a New York tenement in the early days of the pandemic in which a crew of acclaimed writers ― including Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Emma Donoghue ― each tell a different character’s story. ― The Times

A fascinating story of the ‘left-behinds’… a literary event not quite like any other ― Red

A rather intriguing puzzle box of a book… enjoyable, and has a dip-into-able quality ― Scotland on Sunday

If you want to feel well read in double-quick time, try Fourteen Days, which is set in a New York city tenement in the early days of the pandemic. It has a novel twist (pardon the pun) - each character has been secretly written by a different author from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng ― BBC

A fun, compelling game of literary who’s who ― Marie Claire, *Books to Look Out For 2024*

This “collaborative novel” unites writers including Celeste Ng, John Grisham and Emma Donoghue for a story set in a New York apartment building during ― surprise! ― Covid-19. Framed as an ode to the people who couldn’t escape the city, there’s a twist: it’s deliberately unclear who wrote what ― Financial Times

While we're really not in a rush to think about the pandemic again, we'll make an exception for Margaret Atwood. Fourteen Days is a collaborative novel edited by Atwood and Douglas Preston, and includes writing from Celeste NG and John Grisham, amongst others. In the novel, the inhabitants of a Manhattan apartment block gather on the roof and tell stories, as more neighbours join people start to form real bonds ― Cosmopolitan

The novel works brilliantly, partly because of the simplicity of its premise… this is a bold, imaginative idea, superbly executed ― Literary Review