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She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined – with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love. Decades later, she is successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love. You knew I’d write a book about you someday. Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their...

The New York Times Bestseller 'Captivating, potent, incisive, and wise' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe 'Writers & Lovers made me happy' - Ann Patchett Casey has ended up back in Massachusetts after a devastating love affair. Her mother has just died and she is knocked sideways by grief and...

'Vivid, moving, immersive' Marian Keyes 'Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart' - Ann Patchett 'Masterful, surprising, and satisfying' - Madeline Miller Writers & Lovers established Lily King as one of our most beloved authors of contemporary fiction. Now...

A New York Times Notable Book Young, inexperienced and fleeing a terrible personal loss, Rosie travels to France to become an au pair to the Tivot family. Nicole, the cool, distant and beautifully polished mother of the three children she cares for is impossible to connect with - there is...

Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction Gardiner Amory’s life is reeling – Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent her life negotiating her parents’ conflicting worlds: the liberal realm of...

A Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly Best Novel ‘A domestic drama with the adrenaline-fuelled beating heart of a thriller’ - Elle Fifteen years ago, English teacher Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at the elite Fayer Academy. Living on the campus off the coast of New England, she...

The first novel from a new literary voice brimming with sensitivity and lyricism, The Pleasing Hour is the story of Rosie, an American au pair in Europe whose coming-of-age defies all our usual conceptions of naïveté and experience. Every autumn, on a day called la rentrée, hundreds of...

Instant New York Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction | Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction | Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize | A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Harper’s Baazar...

Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she has been writing for six years. At 31, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life.

Sie studiert Literatur, sie weiß, wie gute Liebesgeschichten funktionieren – Geheimnisse, Höhen, Tiefen. Doch die größte Liebesgeschichte hat sie selbst erlebt, und die folgt keinen Regeln. Im letzten Jahr ihres Studiums begegnet sie den beiden hochbegabten Studenten Sam und Yash, die sie in eine berauschende Welt aus Büchern, rasanten Wortgefechten und ausgelassenen Kartenspielen entführen. Es entsteht eine tiefe Freundschaft, die zwischen Liebe und gefährlicher Anziehung ins Wanken gerät.

Last Thursday Nite feels like a fever dream, tastes and smells like grandma's cooking, and sounds like every volume of Now That's What I Call Music playing simultaneously.

'Vivid, moving, immersive' Marian Keyes 'Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart' - Ann Patchett 'Masterful, surprising, and satisfying' - Madeline Miller Writers & Lovers established Lily King as one of our most beloved authors of contemporary fiction. Now...

Now you've read Heart the Lover, it's time to go back to the original . . . ‘A novel with the broad embrace of a 1990s Richard Curtis film’ – The Sunday Times ‘Funny and immensely clever’ – Tessa Hadley 'Gorgeous' - Elizabeth Strout 'Writers & Lovers made me happy . . . suffused with...

Lily King’s literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career. 

Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction From Lily King, beloved author of Writers and Lovers, Father of the Rain is a mesmerising novel about the complexity and power of familial love. Gardiner Amory’s life is reeling – Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him and his...

A Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly Best Novel ‘A domestic drama with the adrenaline-fuelled beating heart of a thriller’ - Elle From Lily King, author of Writers and Lovers, The English Teacher is a compelling drama about the fragility of a life built from ruins and the need to protect...

A New York Times Notable Book The Pleasing Hour, the debut novel by Lily King, is a profoundly moving story of family, betrayal and the naivety of youth. Young, inexperienced and fleeing a terrible personal loss, Rosie travels to France to become an au pair to the Tivot family. Nicole, the cool...

“[A] domestic drama with the adrenalin-fueled beating heart of a thriller.”—Elle “Beautifully written and carefully observed . . . King is a wildly talented writer.” —Chicago Tribune Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at elite Fayer Academy. She has since become...

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