The End of Romance
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verve Books
Publishing:26th Feb '26
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 26th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
After escaping a suffocating marriage to her abusive childhood sweetheart, Sylvie Broder decides she is done with love. She returns to graduate school and sets out to prove that, for a straight woman to be truly happy, she must separate love from sex and give up on all pursuits of romance.
Driven by PhD research, relationship trauma and pride, Sylvie's new philosophy seems set to stick. Until Robbie comes along. And then Abie... Finding herself falling in love - not once, but twice - Sylvie must make a decision: to be brave and let this love in, or to choose her research and burn everything else to the ground.
Deeply relatable and utterly compelling, The End of Romance is an anti-romance for anyone who, despite their very best efforts, has fallen in love and wondered why.
If Grace Paley and Miranda July had a baby, the result would be The End of Romance. Hilarious, off-kilter, sparklingly special, deliciously Jew-ish and disarmingly deep, this book made me feel 10 percent less dead inside -- Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of Housemate
Meyer so beautifully captures the cumulative effect all of our past relationships (romantic and otherwise) have on us... She's crafted an unforgettable cast of characters (including one splendid imaginary turtle). The End of Romance will be an encouraging companion to anyone who's struggled with the question of how to be true to yourself and how to let love in -- Katie Yee, author of Maggie
Sharp and sexy... This thought-provoking novel pulls off big ideas and steamy romance all at once * Publishers Weekly *
A new, incisive and world-opening way of looking at this age-old genre [of smart romantic comedy] ... Meyer's End of Romance is the anti-rom rom-com of the year... heart-warming and thought-provoking book, a romance built for our modern age
The End of Romance revolves around a provocative theory: if straight women are to be free, romance, with its coercive norms, must be eradicated... The result is a compulsively readable, whip-smart, moving novel -- BOMB magazine
ISBN: 9780857309549
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
320 pages