Tony and Susan

Tony and Susan is an ingeniously structured novel-within-a-novel. This book was mostly ignored on its original 1993 release, but after Austin Wright passed away in 2003 it was reissued as Nocturnal Animals to somewhat greater attention. Ignore the plot spoilers; better to go into this one blind. While the story becomes marred by some implausible plot twists toward the end, the first 160 pages are absolutely first-rate.