A dark, disturbing and very, very funny new novel from the inimitable Chuck Palahniuk - his best yet.

"The Lovely Bones meets The Shawshank Redemption via Judy Blume. Expect to be appalled" Vogue "True to Palahniuk form, Damned is gross in parts, scandalous in others and funny throughout" Time Out "Gleefully riffing on Judy Blume's 1970 coming-of-age classic Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Palahniuk's dead heroine must traverse the infernal landscape in search of Satan - and of her true self - as she tries to discover exactly how she died" Financial Times "Vintage chuck - as dark as it gets" Dazed "The vistas of his underworld are engrossing" Metro

Chuck Palahniuk's eleven previous novels are the bestselling Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Lullaby, Diary, Choke - which has been made into a film by director Clark Gregg, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston - Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, Fugitives and Refugees, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.