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product_id: 66334600
title: "Palimpsest: A Novel"
brand: "catherynne valente"
price: "£17.45"
currency: GBP
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 23
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# Palimpsest: A Novel

**Brand:** catherynne valente
**Price:** £17.45
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Palimpsest: A Novel by catherynne valente
- **How much does it cost?** £17.45 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    amazing book!
  

*by C***. on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 February 2009*

Wow! I've loved all Ms Valente's and have been waiting with increasing impatience for the release of Palimpsest.It does not disappoint! the language, is beautiful and rich, poetry on the page, each word perfectly placed to follow the last.This is a book to be treasured, to be read over and over again, to be carried round and dipped into.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Achingly beautiful. Make time for this book and it will ...
  

*by H***H on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 September 2017*

Achingly beautiful. Make time for this book and it will reward you. Not one to be read in snatches, but to be savoured like a fine wine or gourmet food.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Heady and extraordinary
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2009*

This is an incredible book. Cat Valente's honeyed explosion of ideas and images is as addictive as the dream city she has created: hugely tragic, yearning, surreal and overpowering. I loved the fairytale setting of her "In the night garden" books, but this is a modern-day story with a far darker feel. In amongst the decadence and otherness she tells of the obsessive needs of four individuals and how far they'll go to get the only thing they can see. It builds, and the ending is just perfection.Her best yet, from an author I already greatly admired - this book deserves some serious recognition! Warren Ellis had it exactly right: "A book of mad inventive wonder: there are more ideas on one page of this than on a hundred of anything else, told in stunning, jewelled language. --Warren Ellis".

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*Last updated: 2026-05-16*