Will There Ever Be Another You

When I picked up Will There Ever Be Another You, I was immediately reminded that 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 *
Many readers may have forgotten, or perhaps memory-holed, what it was like to live through the pandemic. Lockwood offers a friendly – and characteristically witty, lyrical, sometimes bonkers – reminder in her new novel * 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 *
Mind-melting * TIME Magazine *
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 *