Five Tuesdays in Winter

Five Tuesdays in Winter moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book -- Ann Patchett Lily King is one of my long-time literary heroes . . . masterful, surprising, and satisfying -- Madeline Miller, author of <i>Circe</i> Each masterful story reminds us that King is one of our finest cartographers of the human heart * Esquire * These are stories of outsiders finding their people, of new perspectives, and they place King . . . as one of our great short-story writers * Vogue * Intimate and revealing, this is an honest and insightful collection * Observer * Vivid! Moving! Immersive! -- Marian Keyes Five Tuesdays In Winter perfectly captures those intense, defining moments in peoples lives without ever veering into melodrama or mawkishness. * Red Magazine * King dives into the emotional worlds of her characters whole-hog, her wry humour ensuring that tenderness never veers into sentimentality . . . it is the exquisite attention with which King articulates all that roils inside us that secures her place in the contemporary canon * Financial Times * Superb . . . Ten raw and insightful stories of the heart from the acclaimed novelist, from a babysitters loss of innocence to a nonagenarian at his granddaughters hospital bedside * i * Endearing, vulnerable characters . . . clever, charming short stories * Daily Mail * Love in all its forms is placed under the microscope in this typically forensic collection of short stories from the fabulously sharp, uncompromising American novelist Lily King * Metro *

Lily King is the author of The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain, Euphoria and Writers & Lovers, which was a New York Times bestseller. Euphoria won the Kirkus Prize and the New England Book Award for Fiction, and was also a New York Times bestseller. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. King is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and has twice won both the Maine Fiction Award and the New England Book Award. Five Tuesdays in Winter is her first short story collection. She lives with her husband and children in Maine, USA.