The author of the Booker-shortlisted Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads 'Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it' CURTIS SITTENFELD, bestselling author of Romantic Comedy Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures In a university town in the American Midwest, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves- what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity? The author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are. ***A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*** 'Taylor is a sharp chronicler' RAVEN LEILANI, author of Luster 'Assures Taylor's position as one of the most important novelists of his generation' GUARDIAN