Lily King

A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2014 Kirkus Prize Winner of the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award One of Kirkus Reviews’s Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far) A Best Book of the Year for: The New York Times Book Review...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love. You knew I’d write a book about you someday. Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their...

“[A] domestic drama with the adrenalin-fueled beating heart of a thriller.”—Elle “Beautifully written and carefully observed . . . King is a wildly talented writer.” —Chicago Tribune Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at elite Fayer Academy. She has since become...

The first novel from a new literary voice brimming with sensitivity and lyricism, The Pleasing Hour is the story of Rosie, an American au pair in Europe whose coming-of-age defies all our usual conceptions of naïveté and experience. Every autumn, on a day called la rentrée, hundreds of...

“Haunting, incisive...King is brilliant.” — Elle “An absorbing, insightful story written in cool, polished prose right to the last conflicted line.” —The Washington Post “Spellbinding...You won’t be able to stop reading this book, but when you do finally finish the last delicious...

Sie studiert Literatur, sie weiß, wie gute Liebesgeschichten funktionieren – Geheimnisse, Höhen, Tiefen. Doch die größte Liebesgeschichte hat sie selbst erlebt, und die folgt keinen Regeln.