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The End of Romance

Lily Meyer

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VERVE BOOKS
01 May 2026
After escaping a suffocating marriage to her abusive childhood sweetheart, Sylvie Broder decides she is done with love. She returns to graduate school and sets out to prove that, for a straight woman to be truly happy, she must separate love from sex and give up on all pursuits of romance.

Driven by PhD research, relationship trauma and pride, Sylvie's new philosophy seems set to stick. Until Robbie comes along. And then Abie...

Finding herself falling in love

not once, but twice

Sylvie must make a decision: to be brave and let this love in, or to choose her research and burn everything else to the ground.

Deeply relatable and utterly compelling, The End of Romance is an anti-romance romance novel for anyone who, despite their very best efforts, has fallen in love and wondered why.
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Imprint:   VERVE BOOKS
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm, 
ISBN:   9780857309549
ISBN 10:   0857309544
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novel Short War. She is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review and many other journals, and her essays and criticism appear in outlets including Bookforum, The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review.

Reviews for The End of Romance

If Grace Paley and Miranda July had a baby, the result would be The End of Romance. Hilarious, off-kilter, sparklingly special, deliciously Jew-ish and disarmingly deep, this book made me feel 10 percent less dead inside -- Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of Housemate For literary fiction and romance readers alike, The End of Romance unfurls questions about what female pleasure, satisfaction, and happiness truly look like. -- Bustle, '10 Best New Books of February' Meyer conjures a hothouse of academic passion and political tumult in one woman's quest for self-acceptance -- TIME MAGAZINE Meyer's novel is earnest and analytical, interspersed with theory and sex -- Vulture A sly subversion and exemplar of the [romance] form... its irrepressible protagonist, Sylvie Broder, a spiritual heiress to Judy Blume characters -- The New York Times


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