Sky Daddy

Synopsis

'Truly original . . . deeply weird, deeply funny and deeply felt'
DAILY TELEGRAPH
A CLASSIC STORY OF GIRL MEETS PLANE.
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, VOX, AND VULTURE

'Batty and brilliant'
THE TIMES

'Very strange and very funny'
GUARDIAN

'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

'Very strange and very funny'
GUARDIAN

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

Linda makes $20 an hour as a content moderator, flagging comments that violate a tech conglomerate's terms and conditions. Each night, she returns to the windowless room in a garage that she rents from a family who pretend she isn't there.

But once a month, she escapes to San Francisco International Airport for a clandestine meeting on the cheapest flight out that night. Linda's secret is that she's sexually attracted to planes: their intelligent windscreens, sleek fuselages and powerful engines make her feel a way that no human lover ever could.

Linda believes her destiny is to someday 'marry' one of her suitors by dying in a plane crash, a catastrophic event that would unite her with her soulmate plane for eternity. So when her co-worker Karina invites her to join a group of women using vision boards to manifest their desires, she can't resist the chance to hasten her romantic fate. However, as the vision boards seem to manifest items more quickly - and more literally - than Linda had expected, the carefully balanced elements of her life begin to spin out of her control, and she must choose between maintaining the trappings of normalcy or launching herself headlong towards her greatest dream.

'We can't remember the last time we met a character this singular or read a book this funny'
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB

'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

Discover what readers are saying about the wildest book you'll read this year . . .
'This book is truly unlike anything I've read before. It is strange and wild and so enjoyable'
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'As soon as I saw Sky Daddy was available, I stopped everything and ran (digitally) to NetGalley to beg/plead/scream/cry for the book. It is everything I hoped it would be and more. Do yourself a favour and pick up this original and engaging book'
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'This book was absolutely wild . . . I laughed out loud at parts of this and I truly had the best time with this. The concept is absurd but it made for a brilliant novel'
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'This is one of my most anticipated reads of 2025 and boy did it live up to my expectations. Such a quirky book but really fascinating to read. I really loved the characters, the storyline, and just how downright weird it was! 100% recommend if you love your books weird and wild. Well done again Kate Folk!!'
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