No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood'A masterpiece' Guardian 'I really admire and love this book' Sally Rooney l 'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book' David Sedaris 'It moved me to tears' Elizabeth Day THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It's

or British in the modern age

Boasting a rich vocabulary

before she's gone for good

Claudia has never been in love this before either

She's been here once before - but while the room hasn't changed

her life is now that of a farmers wife - with all the sacrifices and vexations that brings

Alice Roberts urges us to look again at our relationship with the natural world - and our huge influence upon it

there exists an unusual commonality between those who steal art and those who repeatedly kill: they are almost exclusively male

A touching and melodic story of family separation from a child's perspective from the author/illustrator duo who brought us the Amnesty International recommended picture book Luna Loves Library Day

a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit

Wharton was recreating an environment she knew intimately

'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked