Funny, merciless, brilliant… I loved it’ CURTIS SITTENFELDSeamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures. In a university town, 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 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***‘A gorgeously written novel of youth’s promise’OPRAH DAILY‘Taylor’s novels are so big – they contain the world’ESQUIRE‘One of the most important novelists of his generation’ GUARDIAN‘Dazzling… Taylor develops his characters so precisely, they feel like close friends’HARPER’S BAZAAR