Will There Ever Be Another You

Her absurdist take on losing the plot in a pandemic world is a wild and singular pleasure * Observer *
Mind-melting * TIME Magazine *
Lockwood has a modern comic sensibility like no one else ... She and her characters (clearly her own family) are so hilarious that you get swept up in the momentum of her wayward brain. * The Times *
Yo-yoing between heartfelt emotion and zany humour, the memoiristic rambling is electrified by endlessly inventive phrasing, offbeat humour and omnivorous cultural reference * Daily Mail *
Characteristically witty, lyrical, sometimes bonkers * New York Times *
Lockwood, whose mode of thought borders on the metaphysical, takes the literary “you” seriously ... Like the word “you”, it will mean something different – but surely dazzling – to each of you who reads it. * Financial Times *
The story that Lockwood’s book tells deals with sickness and recovery, but also with caretaking, companionship, and, above all, love * New Yorker *
A jaw-dropping tour de force of language and structure * Waterstones *
Patricia Lockwood balances humour with pathos in her new slippery, disorientating novel * Bookseller *
The author’s fans will find her trademark humour, originality, and depth on full display. This is a knockout * Publisher's Weekly *
There is only one Patricia Lockwood, and this surreal, silly, and sneakily profound book could only be hers * Kirkus *
Some books are not meant to be picked apart. They are watercolour gouaches that wash over us as we delight in a palimpsest of colourful impressions. Patricia Lockwood’s body of work is like this: a hymn – or ode, depending on the day – to the painful project of being human * New Republic *
This novel offers moments of hilarity, scenes of rich drama, and a dazzling number of references. It is determined to be less than the sum of its parts. It is deliberately perverse, refusing to hang together. Lockwood is not arguing that the centre cannot hold: she is showing that it does not hold -- Claire Monagle, * Australian Book Review *
It is labelled "a novel", but the subject matter of someone trying to keep the pieces together during a global pandemic is eerily real ... Prepare to be bewildered and baffled in the best way * Australian Women's Weekly *
I admire a writer so dedicated to her mode ... Frequently brilliant * Literary Review *
Will There Ever Be Another You is a novel of caring, loving and coming round to oneself in unprecedented times, both globally and on a personal level. It’s a fever dream, trippy and engrossing; at times hilarious, often very moving and tender * Buzz *
Nothing will quite prepare you for the blend of weirdness and inwardness that is this book’s best feature * Something Curated *