Sky Daddy

'Truly original . . . deeply weird, deeply funny and deeply felt'
DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Batty and brilliant'
THE TIMES

'Very strange and very funny'
GUARDIAN

'Audaciously imagined. Slyly executed. Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird'
RACHEL YODER, author of NIGHTBITCH

'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

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.

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'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'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'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'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'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ �� ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'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!!'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐


Genre: Literary Fiction

"Get on board already! Sky Daddy is absurd and poignant, hilarious and gruesome, razor-sharp and tenderhearted." - Lily Brooks-Dalton

"This book is a dog whistle for the true freaks - never have I felt so seen! I loved it." - Rita Bullwinkel

"Delightfully weird and totally electric." - Gina Chung

"I found myself breathless, shocked, and wonderstruck. Kate Folk is a singular talent, soaring in a brilliant universe all her own." - Emily Habeck

"Kate Folk's sharp sentences and sidesplitting characters sparkle with glorious cringe. Do not miss this flight." - Henry Hoke

"With this brilliant deep dive into the irrational abyss of obsession, Kate Folk proves herself to be a truly original new voice in fiction." - Mat Johnson

"Breathtakingly audacious, Sky Daddy lifts off and swiftly accelerates, breaking the barrier of your preconceptions and disbelief, taking you to utterly new places and insights." - Ling Ma

"Sky Daddy is outrageously funny and smartly unsettling . . . also probably the worst (or . . . best?) book to read on a plane." - Ed Park

"Sky Daddy is a voyeuristic masterpiece - you'll never look at a contrail (or an airplane blanket) the same way again." - Kimberly King Parsons

"Innovative, daring, and (very) fun, Kate Folk's eccentrically smart novel of outward, and inward, love effortlessly blends humor and heart. It's impossible to forget." - Iain Reid

"This is the craziest, funniest book I've read in a while. And I read a lot of crazy, funny books. Get your boarding pass out and get ready for some turbulence. Sky Daddy is insane." - Gary Shteyngart

"With wit and humor, Kate Folk gives us an unsettling but fascinating look at the complicated ways humans relate to technology." - Weike Wang

"Sky Daddy is an exhilarating, addictive, and entirely convincing novel, not to mention strangely tender, deeply compassionate, and with pin-sharp prose." - Lara Williams

"Powerful and wise, Sky Daddy also manages to be the funniest book about sexual obsession that I have ever read." - Colin Winnette