“Five Tuesdays in Winter” moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book.”
— Ann Patchett
“In our time of anxiety and isolation, King writes stories to curl up in, by which I mean they afford us something rarely celebrated in literature: comfort.“
—New York Times Book Review
Praise for “Five Tuesdays in Winter”
NPR, Best Books 2021: Books we love
A Most Anticipated Book of Fall by Vogue, TIME, Esquire, People, the Washington Post, and Lit Hub
A November Indie Next Pick
Included in Amazon’s Top Ten for November
One of Entertainment Weekly’s “Must-Read Books of November”
One of Good Morning America’s “15 Books to Curl Up With This November”
People “Book of the Week”
“These are stories of outsiders finding their people, of new perspectives, and they place King—already one of our most poignant and moving contemporary novelists—among Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, and Mary Gaitskill as one of our great short-story writers as well.”
— Vogue, Best Books to Read This Fall
Best Fiction Books of the Year. “Full of insights and pleasures.”
— Kirkus, Starred Review
Lily King’s novel is the New York Times bestseller Writers & Lovers.
Lily King’s novel Writers & Lovers, is the New York Times Book Club pick of the Month, an Indie Next List March pick, the Amazon Spotlight of the Month, the Today Show’s Read with Jenna March pick, and number eight on the New York Times Best Sellers list! Check out the Media page for more reviews.
Writers & Lovers Best of List:
New York Times, 100 Notable Books of 2020
Washington Post, 10 best books of 2020
NPR’s “Fresh Air,” Maureen Corrigan's Top 10 Books
NPR, Best Books of 2020
People, Top 10 Books of 2020
Los Angeles Times, 10 best books of 2020
Amazon, Best literature and fiction of 2020
Kirkus Reviews, Best Fiction Books of 2020
Electric Literature, Favorite Novels of 2020
Chicago Public Library, Best Books of 2020: Top 20
New York Public Library, Best Fiction Books of 2020
Guardian, Best books of 2020 – picked by our acclaimed guest authors
Times (UK), Best Fiction Books of 2020
Exile in Bookville Bookstore, Favorite Books of 2020
Praise for Writers & Lovers
“Writers & Lovers succeeds in all its particulars. There’s romance, there’s a moral journey and there are characters with amusing foibles. What’s more, the gags are impeccable. It’s a story sweetly poised between hard truths and hilarity, in which the heroine discovers she has what it takes to not only endure but prevail. And that’s a message we all need in these difficult times.”
— The Sunday Times, May 17, 2020, reviewed by Johanna Thomas-Corr
“Jane Austen said, ‘Man has the advantage of choice; woman only the power of refusal,’ but Casey is determined to hold out for a plot on her own terms. The result is an absolute delight, the kind of happiness that sometimes slingshots out of despair with such force you can’t help but cheer, amazed.”
— The Washington Post, March 4, 2020, by Ron Charles, host of Totally Hip Book Review
“Gorgeous!”
— Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive, Again.
“a classic bildungsroman for struggling artists everywhere.”
— Los Angeles Times, By Hillary Kelly, March 1, 2020
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman on the Road to Happiness. “King’s novel is help of a sort, an unmistakable broadside against fiction’s love affair with macho strivers, even — or especially — when layers of lyricism and tenderness coat their machismo.”
— New York Times, Book of the Times, March 10, 2020, by John Williams
“After a while, I didn’t bother to dog-ear anymore; I just held the book open and let my tears fall on the page. I’m not talking crying-emoji tears; I mean actual sobs, the most cathartic kind.”
— New York Times Book Club, by By Elisabeth Egan
“The novel is a meditation on trying itself: to stay alive, to love, to care. That point feels so fresh, so powerfully diametrically opposed to the readily available cynicism we’ve been feasting on.”
— Boston Globe, February 27, 2020, By Amy Pedulla
“King is one of those rare writers who can entwine sadness, hilarity and burning fury in the briefest of moments.”
— BookPage (starred)
"This is my favourite of Lily's books so far. I simply devoured it, longed to get back to it when I was pulled away. It's exquisitely proportioned, tone deliciously right, it's funny and immensely clever, emotionally rare and strong. I feel bereft now I've finished."
— Tessa Hadley, author of Late In The Day
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