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***
