The Watermark

A novel of scope and ambition... Mills' protagonists treat their absurd bind with absolute seriousness. Farce on the outside, tragedy within: this book is full of horrid laughter * The Times *
Virtuosic... If you love Doctor Who, you will love this book. It whirls you off on a similarly breathless Technicolor tumble through different eras and genres... really clever * Guardian *
Playful, romantic and very, very clever. Like Inception for booklovers. Sam Mills packs more ideas into one work of metafiction than most writers would manage in several lifetimes -- Clare Pollard
A thrilling and original novel: an existential mystery, a love story, an absurdist quest.... A playful enquiry into ideas about freedom, fate, utopias, dystopias, AI, ethics and where truth might reside in a world of fakes. Richly imagined, wild and wise -- Joanna Kavenna
A story about stories, an ingenious genre-tumble through literature, artistic expression, free-will, and how far-how deep-we will go for love. A compulsively readable, dizzyingly inventive novel that is both gloriously immense, and immensely, heart-wrenchingly intimate -- Glen James Brown
There are books within books within books in this inventive fantasy with echoes of The Matrix and the works of Susanna Clarke * Mail on Sunday *
Dizzying... engaging... There's an audacity to The Watermark -- John Boyne * Irish Times *
If you've ever heard the phrase "lost in a good book" and thought, "Great, where do I sign up?', this one's for you... It's all good clean metafictional fun - an impressively confident performance with a very clever ending * SFX magazine *
A deeply ambitious work... a proper page-turner... The individual stories are entertaining and inventive, and masterpieces in authorial ventriloquism... A five-star triumph * Bookmunch *
Sam Mills... Knows how to tap into [Philip K] Dick's madcap energy... A novel of... scope and ambition... I especially appreciate how Mills' protagonists treat their absurd bind with absolute seriousness. Farce on the outside, tragedy within: this book is full of horrid laughter * The Times *
If you are a fan of geeky, meta-fictional gameplay - and really, why wouldn't you be - then Mills's dazzlingly inventive genre-hopping caper will keep you pleasurably on your toes... Mills's vaulting ambition delivers huge brain-addling rewards * Daily Mail *
Mills crafts each world with rich layers... The Watermark leaves us with a reminder to take control of our personal and romantic narratives before somebody else does... Mills' ambitious work of metafiction, packed with characters gone awry and a romance tested by a whiplash trajectory, offers a colourful, dizzying adventure plot, but also philosophical questioning of our connection to reality and truth * NB magazine *