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‘Funny, merciless, brilliant… I loved it’ CURTIS SITTENFELD
Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures.
In a university town, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are.
***A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***
‘A gorgeously written novel of youth’s promise’
OPRAH DAILY
‘Taylor’s novels are so big – they contain the world’
ESQUIRE
‘One of the most important novelists of his generation’
GUARDIAN
‘Dazzling… Taylor develops his characters so precisely, they feel like close friends’
HARPER’S BAZAAR