Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life, until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures . . .
Lily King is the author of The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain and Euphoria. Euphoria was a New York Times bestseller and won the Kirkus Prize and the New England Book Award for Fiction. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. King is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has twice won both the Maine Fiction Award and the New England Book Award. She lives with her husband and children in Maine, USA.
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, author of Circe*
Exquisite . . . a warm and bouyant romance
*Sunday Telegraph*
Writers & Lovers made me happy . . . suffused with hopefulness and
kindness. Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit.
*Ann Patchett*
A wry and perceptive coming-of-age story
*Observer*
A novel with the broad embrace of a 1990s Richard Curtis film . . .
There’s romance, there’s a moral journey and there are characters
with amusing foibles. What’s more, the gags are impeccable. It’s a
story sweetly poised between hard truths and hilarity, in which the
heroine discovers she has what it takes to not only endure but
prevail. And that’s a message we all need in these difficult
times.
*Sunday Times*
I loved this book from the first paragraph . . . honest and
riveting and insightful about creativity and life.
*Curtis Sittenfeld*
Delightful . . . warm, funny and sharply observed . . . an
affecting, uplifting exploration of the risks and rewards of
opening up
*Daily Mail*
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, author of Late in The Day*
Unflinching and ultimately buoyant in its depiction of the courage
and grit required to stay creative, this is essential reading for
any aspiring author
*Mail on Sunday*
Gorgeous
*Elizabeth Strout, author of My Name is Lucy Barton*
This smooth, deliberate chronicle of creation keeps the men in
their place and Casey firmly rooted at the center of her own story.
Instead of casting her as a woman torn between archetypes of male
creativity, Writers & Lovers portrays her as a woman in thrall to
her own generative processes, a devotee to the art of (her own)
attention . . . a classic bildungsroman for struggling artists
everywhere.
*Los Angeles Times*
King has created . . . someone akin to Sally Rooney’s Frances in
Conversations with Friends . . . The novel is a meditation on
trying itself: to stay alive, to love, to care. That point feels so
fresh, so powerfully diametrically opposed to the readily available
cynicism we’ve been feasting on . . . King wants us to keep trying,
through whatever means necessary, to beat the odds.
*Boston Globe*
A knowing look at the pursuit of a life in the arts, with a
protagonist you’ll root for.
*Marie Claire*
A comic and compassionate novel . . . With wit and what reads like
deep insider wisdom, Ms. King captures the chronic low-level panic
of taking a leap into the artsy unknown and finding yourself
adrift, without land or rescue in sight.
*Wall Street Journal*
This novel will become a defining classic for struggling young
writers.
*Vulture*
Intimate and vulnerable . . . Lily King’s novel follows a deeply
relatable protagonist navigating a whole menu of crises surrounded
by a cast of genuine, vivid characters . . . The book occupies a
small space, but packs it to the brim with humanity.
*Entertainment Weekly*
Lily King writes masterfully about desire and loss, creativity and
inspiration, and how each overlaps and influences the other
*Christina Baker Kline, author of A Peace of the World*
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, author of Summer of ‘69*
A vivid, funny and altogether real look at what living a creative
life means for a woman
*Elle Magazine (USA)*
Romantic and funny, this smart, witty book takes a wonderfully
life-affirming look at love, literature and second chances.
*Daily Express*
A smart, witty book
*Daily Mirror*
Witty and affecting, Writers & Lovers explores where grit can get
you, even when everything appears to be falling apart.
*i newspaper*
If you like smart, acerbic but ultimately life-affirming fiction,
you’ll love it
*Stylist*
Infused with tenderness and wry wit in equal measure, Writers &
Lovers is King’s best book yet.
*Irish Times*
Puzzling and beautiful . . . Reading the book feels like waiting
for clouds to break – a kind of gorgeous agony
*Guardian*
Smart, funny and a breeze to read
*Metro*
King’s writing is spirited, clever and funny, and her novel is
better than most others you’ll read this year.
*Evening Standard*
This book!!! I beg you to read it, I love it madly! It's touching
and clever and the main character is so loveable!
*Marian Keyes*
Wise, witty and generous-spirited . . . She’s brilliant on the
trials and tribulations of restaurant workers and the struggles of
aspiring writers, complete with rejection letters and constant
doubt that their novels are any good
*Independent.co.uk*
A wry and funny account of a thirtysomething’s struggles to become
a novelist that deliciously sends up puffed-up male writerly egos
along its way
*Sunday Times*
Smart, funny . . . somehow combining a crowd-pleasing literary
romcom with a portrait of devastating grief. I loved its beautiful
writing and light, intelligent handling of human fragility.
*Clare Carlisle, TLS Books of the Year*
Dangerously romantic, bold and fearless enough to imagine the
possibility of unbounded happiness . . . this story of a grieving,
struggling writer torn between two suitors delivers such pure joy
that there may be no surer antidote to 2020’s woes.
*Washington Post, Best Books of 2020*
Romance, humour, a touch of tragedy, Writers & Lovers has what you
want from a good, involving read
*The Times, Best fiction books of the year 2020*
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