EAN: 9781787332119

HOW TO BE SOMEBODY ELSE - MIRANDA POUNTNEY KART...

An uncoming-of-age in New York City 'Has literary oomph' SUNDAY TIMES 'An impressive debut
novel' OBSERVER 'Intelligent  confident and original' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Spring 2015 
New York. On the surface Dylan has achieved the impossible - a life in New York  eight years of
making this stick. And yet it is not the thing she'd imagined (what had she imagined?). When
she walks out of her career  then apartment  and into a housesit for an artist she's never met
she does not tell her friends  her parents back in England  or Matt  her boyfriend  living on
the West Coast. Job-free  rent-free  she'll make good on her book  herself  other things too 
she's thinking  when her neighbour Kate shows up and invites her to a party. There she meets
Gabe  who happens to be married to Kate but insists  'it's not a thing'. The affair that
follows consumes her and she begins to consider what is fixed and what is variable. Can a
person be both? Is Gabe the thing he seems? Is she? As spring turns to summer  her experiments
in living test loyalties and boundaries until an unexpected encounter between the two couples
forces her to confront her future. 'Brilliant... Luscious prose' ANNIE LORD 'Unsettling and
original' TESSA HADLEY ***A MARIE CLAIRE BEST BOOK OF 2024***

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