Hardcover | 320 pages

An extraordinary new novel of art, love, and ambition from Lily King, theNew York Timesbestselling author ofEuphoria

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Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novelEuphoria, Lily King returns with another instantNew York Timesbestseller: an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.

Blindsided by her mothers sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel shes been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Caseys fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.

Writers & Loversfollows Caseya smart and achingly vulnerable protagonistin the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with Kings trademark humor, heart, and intelligence,Writers & Loversis a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.