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What Will Survive of Us

Howard Jacobson

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JONATHAN CAPE
30 January 2024
Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?

Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?

'A rare gift and one to be treasured' SUNDAY TIMES

'A profound and vital book' WILLIAM BOYD

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

Lily is an award-winning television documentary maker. Sam is an award-winning playwright. Both are in relationships that have quietly expired, but their encounter makes Lily and Sam come alive again. As they begin to work together on the page and on screen, an affair takes hold that they are powerless to resist.

Arriving in mid-life, their relationship opens unexpected new worlds and, for Lily, offers her a surprising form of liberation. But what will happen to them when familiarity, illness and age begin to take their toll? What will survive? Taking us to the edge of desire, love and betrayal across a lifetime, What Will Survive of Us reveals what is left of us when we strip away every layer.

'A tender love story' DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Imprint:   JONATHAN CAPE
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   301g
ISBN:   9781787334830
ISBN 10:   178733483X
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for What Will Survive of Us

How is it possible to read Howard Jacobson and not lose oneself in admiration for the music of his language, the power of his characterisation and the penetration of his insight? * The Times * One of the funniest writers alive * Daily Telegraph * A wonderfully wise, moving and heartfelt novel. A profound and vital book -- William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart Howard Jacobson at his finest. An intense expression of romantic love and sexual desire -- Linda Grant, author of The Story of the Forest Howard Jacobson is rightly regarded as one of Britain's very greatest writers -- Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape Artist


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