Sympathy

At 23, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose life story has strange parallels to her own and whom she believes is her ‘internet twin’. What seems to Mizuko like a chance encounter with Alice is anything but – after all, in the age of connectivity, nothing is coincidence. Their subsequent relationship is doomed from the outset, exposing a tangle of lies and sexual encounters as three families across the globe collide, and the most ancient of questions – where do we come from – is answered just by searching online.