Five Tuesdays in Winter

Lily King author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:26th Jan '23

£9.99

Available for immediate dispatch.

Five Tuesdays in Winter cover

By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King's first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories.

By the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King’s first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories.

‘Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart’ – Ann Patchett
‘Masterful, surprising, and satisfying’ – Madeline Miller

The stunning short story collection from the bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria

A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. A widow whisks her daughter away for a holiday she can barely afford, desperate to help the two of them grieve. A neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students. A proud man rages helplessly at his granddaughter’s hospital bedside. A writer receives a visit from all of the men who have tried to suppress her voice.

The romantic but brutally raw stories in Five Tuesdays in Winter explore desire, heartache, moments of shocking cruelty and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. This profoundly tender collection confirms Lily King as one of our most beloved chroniclers of the human heart.

‘Vivid, moving, immersive’ – Marian Keyes

‘Intimate and revealing, unflinchingly honest and insightful’ – TheObserver

‘Exquisite’ – Financial Times

Five Tuesdays in Wintermoved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book -- Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House
Lily King is one of my long-time literary heroes . . . masterful, surprising, and satisfying -- Madeline Miller, author of Circe
Each masterful story reminds us that King is one of our finest cartographers of the human heart * Esquire *
These are stories of outsiders finding their people, of new perspectives, and they place King . . . as one of our great short-story writers * Vogue *
Intimate and revealing, this is an honest and insightful collection * Observer *
Vivid! Moving! Immersive! -- Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel
Five Tuesdays In Winter perfectly captures those intense, defining moments in people’s lives without ever veering into melodrama or mawkishness. * Red Magazine *
King dives into the emotional worlds of her characters whole-hog, her wry humour ensuring that tenderness never veers into sentimentality . . . it is the exquisite attention with which King articulates all that roils inside us that secures her place in the contemporary canon * Financial Times *
Superb . . . Ten raw and insightful stories of the heart from the acclaimed novelist, from a babysitter’s loss of innocence to a nonagenarian at his granddaughter’s hospital bedside * i *
Endearing, vulnerable characters . . . clever, charming short stories * Daily Mail *
Love in all its forms is placed under the microscope in this typically forensic collection of short stories from the fabulously sharp, uncompromising American novelist Lily King * Metro *

ISBN: 9781529086492

Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 16mm

Weight: 174g

240 pages