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Informationen zum Autor Holly Williams is a journalist and worked for The Independent for six years. She has written for many publications including The New York Times , The FT , The Telegraph , The i newspaper, ELLE , and the BBC, as well as returning to The Independent to edit its arts section. She is currently a theatre critic for Time Out and The Mail on Sunday , and a book reviewer for The Observer and The TLS . She was born in Wales and currently lives in Sheffield. What Time Is Love? is her first novel. Klappentext *A COSMOPOLITAN BEST BOOK PICK FOR 2024!* 'Bold, playful, generous and lush, it's a story that feels both timeless and urgent - I loved it. Gorgeously and relentlessly queer!' DAISY BUCHANAN A lover. A bartender. A husband. An artist. A student. A poet. A sex worker. A welder. A drag queen. A mother. As the sun sets over the city streets, ten ordinary lives collide with extraordinary consequences. From thrilling first meetings and impulsive liaisons, to messy misunderstandings and passionate reconciliations, each connection has the potential to be the start of something, or already hints at its own ending. Yet uniting them all is the desire to find true intimacy in a fractured modern world - to see, and to truly be seen... A razor-sharp, intoxicating and thought-provoking novel of ten interlocking sexual encounters that will appeal to fans of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, and 'Modern Love' from the New York Times . Praise for The Start of Something : ' A fun, big-hearted and at times thought-provoking read about the search for connection in an all-too-busy, atomised world ' MARIE CLAIRE 'Effortlessly fluid. Moving and suprising' LILY LINDON 'Ten lives collide, and each encounter unspools in its messy, vulnerable, thrilling glory. Electrifying' MARIANNE LEVY 'Williams skillfully explores connections, complications and 'situationships' in all of their messy glory' GRAZIA 'An insightful, hopeful and cleverly constructed novel about sexuality, identity and friendship. Written with humour and huge compassion. Brilliant' ANNA MAZZOLA 'Brilliantly clever. Surprising and hopeful ' ANOUSHKA WARDEN Vorwort An intoxicating, provocative and thought-provoking novel that through ten interlocking sexual encounters, questions what true intimacy and love might look like in today's world. Zusammenfassung *A COSMOPOLITAN BEST BOOK PICK FOR 2024!* 'Bold, playful, generous and lush, it's a story that feels both timeless and urgent - I loved it. Gorgeously and relentlessly queer!' DAISY BUCHANAN A lover. A bartender. A husband. An artist. A student. A poet. A sex worker. A welder. A drag queen. A mother. As the sun sets over the city streets, ten ordinary lives collide with extraordinary consequences. From thrilling first meetings and impulsive liaisons, to messy misunderstandings and passionate reconciliations, each connection has the potential to be the start of something, or already hints at its own ending. Yet uniting them all is the desire to find true intimacy in a fractured modern world - to see, and to truly be seen... A razor-sharp, intoxicating and thought-provoking novel of ten interlocking sexual encounters that will appeal to fans of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, and 'Modern Love' from the New York Times . Praise for The Start of Something : ' A fun, big-hearted and ...
