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What Will Survive of Us

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Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age? What Will Survive of Us Wonderfully wise, moving and heartfelt - William Boyd A tender love story - Daily Telegraph LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025 Lily falls in love with Sam the... Read More
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Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?

What Will Survive of Us

Wonderfully wise, moving and heartfelt - William Boyd

A tender love story - Daily Telegraph

LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025

Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily has never quite believed in love, while Sam thought he understood it inside out.

Lily, a documentary maker, and Sam, a playwright, are both in relationships that have quietly expired, and an affair takes hold that they are powerless to resist.

Arriving in mid-life, their relationship opens unexpected new worlds. But what will happen to them when familiarity and age begin to take their toll? What will survive?

Celebrates love in later life - Harper's Bazaar

Playful, knowing...a romping read in all senses - Evening Standard

Jacobson at his finest - Linda Grant

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529921489

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 February 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 212g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.

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