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By (author) Lockwood Patricia
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Emotionally profound and fiendishly funny, Will There Ever Be Another You is the hugely anticipated new novel from Patricia Lockwood – the ‘voice of a generation’
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”I”m always happy to go into her zany vortex”
Lorde
”This was my most anticipated book of the year, and it did not disappoint!”
R. F. Kuang, author of Katabasis and Yellowface
**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR
THE OBSERVER,
GQ AND ANOTHER MAGAZINE**
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS,
WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN”S PRIZE FOR FICTION
The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body, she’s afraid of her own floorboards, and the lyrics of ‘What Is Love’ play over and over in her ears. ‘I’m sorry not to respond to your email,’ she writes, ‘but I live completely in the present now.’
Tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side – and with it, the chance for a blinding re-emergence into the world.
From one of our most original, inventive and prodigiously funny writers, Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent, wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times.
Praise for Patricia Lockwood and No One Is Talking About This
”Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation”
Namita Gokhale
”I really admire and love this book”
Sally Rooney
”I can”t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book”
David Sedaris
”A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits”
Douglas Stuart
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Her absurdist take on losing the plot in a pandemic world is
a wild and singular pleasure
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Mind-melting
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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.
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Yo-yoing between heartfelt emotion and zany humour, the memoiristic rambling is
electrified by endlessly inventive phrasing, offbeat humour and omnivorous cultural reference
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Lockwood is
a wildcard writer of preternatural ability who does not make life easy for her readers. I read her Covid fever-dream Will There Ever Be Another You three times before I felt on solid ground, and then realised that if I felt on solid ground I had misread it. By altering fiction’s space-time continuum, Lockwood gives us a novel in free-fall:
fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the flight
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This was
my most-anticipated title of the year, and it did not disappoint! I’ve loved Patricia Lockwood’s work since I read No One is Talking About This. Will There Ever Be Another You approaches the experience of suffering through long COVID with the same
wit, inventiveness and breathtaking punch lines and gut punches
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Characteristically witty, lyrical, sometimes bonkers
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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.
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The story that Lockwood’s book tells deals with sickness and recovery, but also with caretaking, companionship, and, above all, love<
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