THE LOVE STORY OF THE SUMMER 'A triumph a real gift of a novel' Sunday Times 'Pure
pleasure in a paperback' Guardian Summer Reads 'It makes you want to tell someone - anyone
- that you love or care about them' Independent Sometimes you need to get lost to find
your way... Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat stuck battling the long
afternoons and a life that often feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone.
Reeling from his wife's departure increasingly reclusive taking himself on long solitary
walks across the moors and fells. When a persistent mutual friend and some very English
weather conspire to bring them together Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on
the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship. But can they survive the
journey? 'Undoubtedly the defining book of summer 2025' The Bookseller 'Romantic funny and
hopeful' Dolly Alderton 'Such a lovely book!' Nigella Lawson 'You become so invested in
the outcome of this romance that it makes the whole world shimmer with a kind of secret
possibility' Observer 'The irresistible feel of a classic romance' Mail on Sunday One of
the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times A book of the year pick in the Guardian
Observer Independent Mail on Sunday GQ Good Housekeeping NetGalley and Red Winner
of the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction 2024 Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman
Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction 2024 Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award
2025 Shortlisted for Best Fiction Book at the British Book Awards 2025 ONE OF BRITAIN'S
MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS 'One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now'
FINANCIAL TIMES 'An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud but also care passionately
about his characters' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'No one else writes novels that are both relatable
and revelatory in the way he does' EVENING STANDARD
