Stay Up with Hugo Best

A Novel

By: Erin Somers

Narrated by: Sarah Steele

**One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year**

“Incisive, funny, and tinged with melancholy, the timely novel follows two lost but clever souls desperate for connection.” —Entertainment Weekly

June Bloom is twenty-nine, broke, and an aspiring comedy writer. Hugo Best is a beloved late-night TV icon and notorious womanizer who invites her to his mansion for Memorial Day weekend. This is the story of their four days together, a “zippy…magnificent…devilishly fun ride” (Vogue).

When June Bloom, an assistant on the late-night comedy show, Stay Up with Hugo Best, runs into Hugo himself at an open mic following his unexpected retirement, she finds herself fielding a surprising invitation: Hugo asks June to come to his mansion in Greenwich for the long Memorial Day weekend. “No funny business,” he insists.

June—in need of a job and money, but also harboring the remains of a childhood crush on the charming older comedian and former role model—is confident she can handle herself. She accepts. As the weekend unfolds and the enigmatic Hugo gradually reveals appealingly vulnerable facets to his personality, their dynamic proves to be much more complicated and less predictable than June imagined.

“A witty and subtle commentary on sex, power, and social politics” (Refinery 29) and “an outstanding comedic debut” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Stay Up with Hugo Best announces a gloriously irreverent, bold, and winning new voice in fiction.

Incredible Writing

I loved everything about this book and highly recommend it, as I already have to friends and family.

Surprisingly absorbing and fun

This novel is surprisingly reflective and funny. The details and strong ironic Millennial voice make it both vivid and compelling.

Phenomenally written

I’m so glad I ignored the couple of negative reviews - those people clearly didn’t get it! Her writing is hilariously funny, dry, acerbic. The performance was absolutely perfect! The characters reminded me a lot of Lost in Translation. A really genuinely good read!

Terrible read

Listened for hour then gave up no story was not enjoyable had to return it

Waste of time

This book was anticlimactic and extremely dry. Very hard to get through. There was no actual plot.