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From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.
‘Nigel Slater’s prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour’ ELIZABETH DAY
In the inner circle, where can you hide a secret?
In this compulsive story of betrayal, old bonds and buried scandals, one British establishment family comes face to face with the consequences of privilege and the true cost of power.
In the inner circle, where can you hide a secret?
In this compulsive story of betrayal, old bonds and buried scandals, one British establishment family comes face to face with the consequences of privilege and the true cost of power.
Are you trying to get over a toxic boy but can’t quite seem to shake him off? Does your ex keep pulling you back in every time you start feeling ready to let go?
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‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’GUARDIAN
‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD
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THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 … ‘GENIUS’
A BOOK OF THE YEAR for theSPECTATOR, MAIL ON SUNDAY, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY EXPRESSand THE TABLET.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 … ‘GENIUS’
A BOOK OF THE YEAR for theSPECTATOR, MAIL ON SUNDAY, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY EXPRESSand THE TABLET.
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’GUARDIAN
‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD
‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN
‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG
‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’GUARDIAN
‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD
‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN
‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG
‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD
‘THE FUNNIEST BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ ABOUT GRIEF’ MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
‘SHIMMERS WITH WIT EVEN AS IT EXPLORES DEEP LOSS’ RACHEL KHONG
‘I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again’ LENA DUNHAM
‘Smart and funny … reminds me of the best of Nora Ephron’ GUARDIAN
Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about—hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art and love.
‘Powerful, capacious and profound’ OCEAN VUONG
‘A book you won’t soon forget’ ILYA KAMINSKY
‘Astonishing’ TERRANCE HAYES
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
‘THE FUNNIEST BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ ABOUT GRIEF’ MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
‘SHIMMERS WITH WIT EVEN AS IT EXPLORES DEEP LOSS’ RACHEL KHONG
‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’
