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Sky Daddy: 'Truly original, deeply weird' - Daily Telegraph

Kate Folk

'A full-throttle thrill: strap in!'
Daily Mail

A CLASSIC STORY OF GIRL MEETS PLANE.


A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, VOX, OPRAH DAILY, VULTURE, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, ELECTRIC LIT, DEBUTIFUL, BOOK RIOT, PEN AMERICA, AND THE SKINNY

'Batty and brilliant'
THE TIMES

'Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird'
RACHEL YODER, author of NIGHTBITCH

'Wonderfully weird and worryingly convincing'
CHARLOTTE MENDELSON, author of THE EXHIBITIONIST

'
A little bit JG Ballard, a little bit Ottessa Moshfegh'
DAILY MAIL

Linda tries her best to lead a normal life. But once a month she escapes to the airport to secretly indulge in her true passion: Linda is sexually attracted to planes, and believes it is her destiny to someday marry one by dying in a fiery crash.

When the opportunity arises to hasten her romantic fate, Linda must choose between the trappings of an ordinary life and succumbing to her deepest desires.

'A dog whistle for the true freaks - never have I felt so seen! I loved it'
RITA BULLWINKEL, author of the Booker Prize-longlisted HEADSHOT

Fasten your seatbelts, and get ready for this year's wildest ride
'I've never related more to a fictional character'
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'Best book I've read in a few years!'
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'I hate how much I love this book'
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'Weird and different and clever and beautiful and moving and funny and I honestly can't recommend it enough'
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'It rearranged my brain a little bit'
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'The most surprising read of the year so far . . . embrace the weirdness'
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'Weird, but in amazing ways'
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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : APR 9, 2026
  • Imprint : Sceptre
  • Page Extent : 368
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781529372700
  • Price : INR 799
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Kate Folk

Kate Folk is the author of the short story collection Out There. She has written for publications including The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and Zyzzyva. She's received support from the Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Recently, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. She lives in San Francisco.

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