The Rest of Our Lives

1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away.

Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to time, often in one another’s sight, always on one another’s mind, yet rarely together.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy and palpable delight in pushing boundaries

This summer, meet Sadie Smith: seductive, cunning and going undercover – the Booker-shortlisted, wickedly entertaining New York Times bestseller ‘Hugely enjoyable’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Wonderfully seductive’ ALAN HOLLINGHURST ‘Really fantastic – get it!’ SARAH JESSICA PARKER ‘Entrancing’ MICK HERRON Sadie Smith – a 34-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics and bold opinions – is sent […]

Vivid and joyful, raw and tender, Bloody Awful in Different Ways is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change