The New York Times Bestseller
‘A novel with the broad embrace of a 1990s Richard Curtis film’ – The Sunday Times
‘Witty and affecting, Writers & Lovers explores where grit can get you, even when everything appears to be falling apart’ – i newspaper
‘Captivating’ – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
‘Funny and immensely clever’ – Tessa Hadley, author of Free Love
Casey is lost. She is mourning the death of her mother, the novel she has been writing for six years isn’t going anywhere, and her debt is soaring. Surely at thirty-one, when all her friends are getting married and having kids, she is too old for things to be this way.
Then she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar – older, fascinating, complicated – walks into her life, his two boys in tow. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different futures . . .
Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers is Lily King's bitingly clever modern classic.
‘Exquisite . . . A warm and buoyant romance’ – The Sunday Telegraph
‘Delightful . . . Warm, funny and sharply observed’ – Daily Mail
‘Infused with tenderness and wry wit’ – The Irish Times
‘Romantic and funny . . . Wonderfully life-affirming’ – Daily Express
Genre: Literary Fiction
‘A novel with the broad embrace of a 1990s Richard Curtis film’ – The Sunday Times
‘Witty and affecting, Writers & Lovers explores where grit can get you, even when everything appears to be falling apart’ – i newspaper
‘Captivating’ – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
‘Funny and immensely clever’ – Tessa Hadley, author of Free Love
Casey is lost. She is mourning the death of her mother, the novel she has been writing for six years isn’t going anywhere, and her debt is soaring. Surely at thirty-one, when all her friends are getting married and having kids, she is too old for things to be this way.
Then she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar – older, fascinating, complicated – walks into her life, his two boys in tow. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different futures . . .
Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers is Lily King's bitingly clever modern classic.
‘Exquisite . . . A warm and buoyant romance’ – The Sunday Telegraph
‘Delightful . . . Warm, funny and sharply observed’ – Daily Mail
‘Infused with tenderness and wry wit’ – The Irish Times
‘Romantic and funny . . . Wonderfully life-affirming’ – Daily Express
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"My favourite of Lily King’s books so far. Exuberant and affirming, it’s funny and immensely clever, emotionally rare and strong. I feel bereft now I've finished." - Tessa Hadley
"Writers & Lovers stole my heart from its first pages. I am in love with this book. In. Love. This deep dive of a novel will stay with me forever." - Elin Hilderbrand
"Writers & Lovers is a portrait of the artist as a young woman. Lily King writes masterfully about desire and loss, creativity and inspiration, and how each overlaps and influences the other. I found myself reading slowly, underlining phrases, wanting to linger in the world of this novel. Her insights about love ? how it is elusive and ineffable ? and about grief ? how it is something that you live inside ? took my breath away." - Christina Baker Kline
"Lily King is one of our great literary treasures and Writers & Lovers is suffused with her brilliance. It is captivating, potent, incisive, and wise, a moving story of grief, and recovering from grief, and of a young woman finding her courage for life." - Madeline Miller
"If you loved The Friend but wish it had had more sex and waitressing, get ready for Lily King’s Writers and Lovers. Delicious." - Emma Straub
"Gorgeous!" - Elizabeth Strout
"Writers & Lovers stole my heart from its first pages. I am in love with this book. In. Love. This deep dive of a novel will stay with me forever." - Elin Hilderbrand
"Writers & Lovers is a portrait of the artist as a young woman. Lily King writes masterfully about desire and loss, creativity and inspiration, and how each overlaps and influences the other. I found myself reading slowly, underlining phrases, wanting to linger in the world of this novel. Her insights about love ? how it is elusive and ineffable ? and about grief ? how it is something that you live inside ? took my breath away." - Christina Baker Kline
"Lily King is one of our great literary treasures and Writers & Lovers is suffused with her brilliance. It is captivating, potent, incisive, and wise, a moving story of grief, and recovering from grief, and of a young woman finding her courage for life." - Madeline Miller
"If you loved The Friend but wish it had had more sex and waitressing, get ready for Lily King’s Writers and Lovers. Delicious." - Emma Straub
"Gorgeous!" - Elizabeth Strout
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