Writers & Lovers

Funny yet heartbreaking, the perfect read for fans of One Day and Normal People

By: Lily King

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Now you've read Heart the Lover, it's time to go back to the original . . .

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Heart the Lover. Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers is Lily King's bitingly clever modern classic.

‘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 hopefulness and kindness' - Ann Patchett
'I loved this book from the first paragraph' - Curtis Sittenfeld

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 . . .

‘Exquisite . . . A warm and buoyant romance’ – The Sunday Telegraph
‘Captivating’ – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
‘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
‘Witty and affecting, Writers & Lovers explores where grit can get you, even when everything appears to be falling apart’ – i newspaper

Critic reviews

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)

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)

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, author of Summer of ‘69)

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)

Glemboski's warm voice has great narrative appeal, and she populates the wealth of interesting characters with believable, imaginative voices. One wants to remain long in their company