Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories

"Lily King’s writing is my most widely recommended: anchored so insistently around character and plot that it pulls in even the least voracious reader, so keenly observed and gently told that even in a 50-book year, I made time to revisit her novel Euphoria. Many of Five Tuesdays in Winter’s stories are quite sad – but in their refusal to treat emotion with any distance, they manage to make sadness feel less lonely. Hard to imagine what else you might ask a book to do."