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'You knew I’d write a book about you someday' Our narrator understands good love stories – their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into...

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...

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...

'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...

Étudiante à la faculté des lettres, l'héroïne de ce roman éprouve une soif de connaissance et de sensations que seule la littérature, pense-t-elle, peut assouvir. Avec Sam et Yash, deux amis inséparables rencontrés sur le campus, elle découvre un univers où ferveur intellectuelle, joutes verbales et parties de cartes endiablées coexistent joyeusement. Très vite, leurs vies s'entremêlent, faites d'amitié, mais aussi d'imprévisibles attirances, jusqu'au premier amour.

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...

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.

Nach dem gefeierten Bestseller Euphoria erzählt Lily King in Writers & Lovers treffsicher, intelligent und mit ureigenem Humor die Geschichte einer ebenso starken wie zerbrechlichen jungen Frau - und von der Zerrissenheit zwischen den Zwängen der Gesellschaft und den eigenen Träumen von einem...

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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...