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

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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.

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Now you've read Heart the Lover, it's time to go back to the original . . . 'A novel with the broad embrace of a 1990s Richard Curtis film' - The Sunday Times
'Funny and immensely clever' - Tessa Hadley
'Gorgeous' - Elizabeth Strout
'Writers & Lovers made me happy . . . suffused with hopefulness and kindness' - Ann Patchett
'I loved this book from the first paragraph' - Curtis Sittenfeld

Casey is lost. She is mourning the death of her mother, the novel she has been writing for six years isn't going anywhere, and her debt is soaring. Surely at thirty-one, when all her friends are getting married and having kids, she is 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, complicated - 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 futures . . .

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Heart the Lover. Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers is Lily King's bitingly clever modern classic.

'Exquisite . . . A warm and buoyant romance' - The Sunday Telegraph
'Captivating' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe
'Delightful . . . Warm, funny and sharply observed' - Daily Mail
'Infused with tenderness and wry wit' - The Irish Times
'Romantic and funny . . . Wonderfully life-affirming' - Daily Express
'Witty and affecting, Writers & Lovers explores where grit can get you, even when everything appears to be falling apart' - i newspaper