Writers & Lovers

When was the last time you came to the end of a book and found tears forming at the corners of your eyes and wished you could start reading it all over again? The “plot” of this novel is thin - we meet a young woman writer, Casey, whose working a dead-end restaurant job, whose deeply in debt, who is very close to being evicted, who is finishing a novel she's been working on for six years, who is torn between two men, both or neither of which may be right for her and is mourning the death of her beloved mother a year before. And yet by the time I got to the end, Casey was someone I wanted to keep close, to read more about her, to watch the rest of her life unfold. The last time I had a similar feeling about a fictional character was Olive Ketteridge. I can't recommend this book highly enough. It is a gem. Lily King is my new hero. I liked and admired Euphoria. But I LOVED Writers & Lovers.