Five Tuesdays in Winter

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'Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book' - Ann Patchett Writers & Lovers established Lily King as one of our most beloved authors of contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever, King collects ten of her finest short stories, opening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike. Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl's loss of innocence at the hands of her employer's son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King's enduring subject of love. Lily King's literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career. 'Lily King is one of our great literary treasures' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe

Lily King is the author of The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain, Euphoria and Writers & Lovers, which was a New York Times bestseller. Euphoria won the Kirkus Prize and the New England Book Award for Fiction, and was also a New York Times bestseller. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. King is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has twice won both the Maine Fiction Award and the New England Book Award. Five Tuesdays in Winter is her first short story collection. She lives with her husband and children in Maine, USA.

Five Tuesdays in Winter moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book -- Ann Patchett 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 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 *