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Will There Ever Be Another You
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Description
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
Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together – of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She's afraid of her own floorboards, and “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON'T HURT ME” plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn't know who they are.
Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she'll get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. “I'm sorry not to respond to your email,” she writes, “but I live completely in the present now.”
Will There Ever Be Another You is the phosphorescent story of one woman's dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss, from one of our most original writers.
Praise for Patricia Lockwood and No One Is Talking About This
'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale
'A masterpiece' Guardian
'I really admire and love this book' Sally Rooney
'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster' Daily Mail
'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
Product details
| Published | 23 Sep 2025 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781526689207 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Her absurdist take on losing the plot in a pandemic world is a wild and singular pleasure
Observer
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Mind-melting
TIME Magazine
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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.
The Times
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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
Daily Mail
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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
Frances Wilson, New Statesman
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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
R. F. Kuang, author of KATABASIS and YELLOWFACE



















