THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body, she's afraid of her own floorboards, and 'WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON'T HURT ME' plays over and over in her ears. 'I'm sorry not to respond to your email,' she writes, 'but I live completely in the present now.' But tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side - and with it, the chance for a blinding re-emergence into the world.…
"There are a number of highly anticipated new novels just newly released, not least Patricia Lockwood’s latest, Will There Ever Be Another You . I love Patricia Lockwood. Her writing is irreverent and funny and full of non-sequiturs, yet also full of pathos and depth. You may remember her memoir, Priestdaddy , about growing up in the Midwest as the daughter of an charismatic, gun-toting Catholic priest, or her heartbreaking novel No One is Talking About This . Will There Ever Be Another You features a narrator unhinged by Long Covid, whose brain fog is modelled on symptoms experienced by Lockwood herself, as detailed in a London Review of Books diary published in 2020. (“I was under the impression that I had taken detailed notes throughout the experience,” as she recalled, “but when I opened the file called ‘quarantine’ I found it to be 158 words long and full of cryptic particles: ‘Masque of the Red Death. Statue of Pericles. Tigers.’ Fine, whatever.”) Also unmissable: this profile of Lockwood, which ran recently in the New Yorker."
