Five Tuesdays in Winter

By Lily King

‘Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart’ – Ann Patchett
‘Masterful, surprising, and satisfying’ – Madeline Miller

The stunning short story collection from the bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria

A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. A widow whisks her daughter away for a holiday she can barely afford, desperate to help the two of them grieve. A neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students. A proud man rages helplessly at his granddaughter’s hospital bedside. A writer receives a visit from all of the men who have tried to suppress her voice.

The romantic but brutally raw stories in Five Tuesdays in Winter explore desire, heartache, moments of shocking cruelty and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. This profoundly tender collection confirms Lily King as one of our most beloved chroniclers of the human heart.

‘Vivid, moving, immersive’ – Marian Keyes

‘Intimate and revealing, unflinchingly honest and insightful’ – The Observer

‘Exquisite’ – Financial Times

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Release date: Jan 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781529086508

Lily King

LILY KING is the New York Times–bestselling author of five novels: The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain, Euphoria and Writers & Lovers, and a story collection, Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her work has won numerous prizes, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award for fiction, the Maine Literary Award and the Whiting Award. She was also the winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Lily King lives in Portland, Maine.