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Zusatztext King’s tender, romantic novel is an uplifting account of loss, literature and the redeeming power of love Informationen zum Autor Lily King is the author of the novels The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain, Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, which is inspired by the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead. King is 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. Klappentext 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 'Reading the book feels like waiting for clouds to break - a kind of gorgeous agony' - Guardian 'I loved this book' - Curtis Sittenfeld Vorwort For fans of Sally Rooney and David Mitchell, Writers & Lovers is the insightful novel from Lily King, the author of the New York Times Bestseller Euphoria. Zusammenfassung For fans of Sally Rooney and David Nicholls, Writers & Lovers is the insightful novel from Lily King, the author of the New York Times Bestseller Euphoria....
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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
