Writers & Lovers

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 LoveCasey 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

Lily King is the author of The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain, Euphoria, Writers & Lovers, which was a New York Times bestseller, Heart the Lover and the short-story collection, Five Tuesdays in Winter. Euphoria won the Kirkus Prize and the New England Book Award for Fiction, was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, and was also a New York Times bestseller. 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 in Maine, USA.