Funny and heartbreaking, Writers && Lovers by Lily King is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life, until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures.
The New York Times Bestseller
Captivating, potent, incisive, and wise - Madeline Miller, author of Circe
Extremely funny - Sunday Times
Recently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing for six years isn t going anywhere, her debt is soaring, and at thirty-one, with all her friends getting married and having kids, she feels 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, troubled - 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 relationships that promise two very different futures. And she s still got to write that book . . .
Suffused with hopefulness and kindness - Ann Patchett
Exquisite - Sunday Telegraph
Funny and immensely clever - Tessa Hadley
Beautiful . . . Reading the book feels like waiting for clouds to break - a kind of gorgeous agony - Guardian
I loved this book - Curtis Sittenfeld
About the Author
Lily King is the author of Writers && Lovers, The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain and Euphoria. Euphoria was a New York Times bestseller and won the Kirkus Prize and the New England Book Award for Fiction. 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 with her husband and children in Maine, USA.
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