Holly Williams – författare

A sweeping, nostalgic and dazzlingly immersive speculative love story, perfect for fans of The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett, Miss You by Kate Eberlen and Normal People by Sally Rooney.

'It's the new One Day' FABULOUS'Delightful, insightful and immersive' KATE EBERLEN'Invigorating [and] fascinating' GUARDIAN'Holly's beautiful prose smoulders, crackles and roars' DAISY BUCHANAN1947. 1967. 1987.When Violet and Albert first meet, they are always twenty.Three decades.Over the years, Violet and Albert's lives collide again and again: beneath Oxford's spires, on the rolling hills around Abergavenny, in stately homes and in feminist squats. And as each decade ends, a new love story begins...Two people.Together, they are electric and the world is glittering with possibility. But against the shifting times of each era, Violet and Albert must overcome differences in class, gender, privilege and ambition. Each time their lives entwine, it will change everything.One moment is all it takes...As their eyes first meet, for a split-second it's as if the clocks have stopped. Nothing else matters. Yet whichever decade brings them together, Violet and Albert are soon forced to question: what if they met the right person at the wrong time?A sweeping, nostalgic and dazzlingly immersive love story, perfect for fans of The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett, Miss You by Kate Eberlen and Normal People by Sally Rooney.

*A COSMOPOLITAN BEST BOOK PICK FOR 2024!*'Bold, playful, generous and lush, it's a story that feels both timeless and urgent - I loved it. Gorgeously and relentlessly queer!' DAISY BUCHANANA lover. A bartender. A husband. An artist. A student.A poet. A sex worker. A welder. A drag queen. A mother.As the sun sets over the city streets, ten ordinary lives collide with extraordinary consequences. From thrilling first meetings and impulsive liaisons, to messy misunderstandings and passionate reconciliations, each connection has the potential to be the start of something, or already hints at its own ending.Yet uniting them all is the desire to find true intimacy in a fractured modern world - to see, and to truly be seen...A razor-sharp, intoxicating and thought-provoking novel of ten interlocking sexual encounters that will appeal to fans of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, and 'Modern Love' from the New York Times.Praise for The Start of Something:'A fun, big-hearted and at times thought-provoking read about the search for connection in an all-too-busy, atomised world' MARIE CLAIRE'Effortlessly fluid. Moving and suprising' LILY LINDON'Ten lives collide, and each encounter unspools in its messy, vulnerable, thrilling glory. Electrifying' MARIANNE LEVY'Williams skillfully explores connections, complications and 'situationships' in all of their messy glory' GRAZIA'An insightful, hopeful and cleverly constructed novel about sexuality, identity and friendship. Written with humour and huge compassion. Brilliant' ANNA MAZZOLA'Brilliantly clever. Surprising and hopeful' ANOUSHKA WARDEN

'Bold, playful, generous and lush, it's a story that feels both timeless and urgent - I loved it. Gorgeously and relentlessly queer!' DAISY BUCHANANA lover. A bartender. A husband. An artist. A student. A poet. A sex worker. A welder. A drag queen. A mother.As the sun sets over the city streets, ten ordinary lives collide with extraordinary consequences. From thrilling first meetings and impulsive liaisons, to messy misunderstandings and passionate reconciliations, each connection has the potential to be the start of something, or already hints at its own ending.Yet uniting them all is the desire to find true intimacy in a fractured modern world - to see, and to truly be seen...A razor-sharp, intoxicating and thought-provoking novel of ten interlocking sexual encounters that will appeal to fans of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, and 'Modern Love' from the New York Times.Praise for Holly Williams:'It's the new One Day' FABULOUS'Delightful, insightful and immersive' KATE EBERLEN'Invigorating...combines the fizz of a romance with an earnest inquiry into the vastly changing fortunes of women, along with questions of class and privilege' Hephzibah Anderson, THE OBSERVER'An unforgettable story with writing that sparkles: a gem of a read' HOLLY MILLER