Fulfillment - A Sunday Times Summer Reads Pick

''Engaging, thoughtful and bang up-to-date.'' The Times '' A stone cold fox of a second novel.'' PANDORA SYKES ''Fizzy dialogue and killer comic timing . . . Cole takes the temperature of modern America.'' Daily Mail ''A rising literary star.'' Washington Post ''Exquisitely well observed.'' Sunday Times You ever wake up and wonder how you got to a place? Emmett and Joel are half-brothers, but they couldn''t be more different: one a single, blue collar warehouse worker, the other a married academic and published writer. For the first time in years, the two of them are back together in the family home, in Kentucky, just as Joel''s wife, Alice, starts to yearn for a different kind of life. Readers loved Fulfillment : ''A masterful modern novel.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''Gritty, truthful, inspirational.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''Gorgeously written . . . a powerful social commentary.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''A wildly relevant and relatable book and incredibly entertaining.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Product details

• Authors: Lee Cole, Cole Lee
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 29.01.2026
• EAN: 9780571392179
• ISBN: 978-0-571-39217-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Kentucky, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: love / relationships