Lily King – författare & böcker

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Heart the Lover

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

131 kr

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret' DAVID NICHOLLS'Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King's writing still pierces you' The Times'Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity' Independent'Beautifully written . . . I was hooked from the first page' Daily MailOur narrator understands good love stories - their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules.She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined - with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love.Decades later, she is a successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth.

Heart the Lover

AvLily King

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

231 kr

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret' DAVID NICHOLLS'Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King's writing still pierces you' The Times'Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity' Independent'Beautifully written . . . I was hooked from the first page' Daily Mail'You knew I'd write a book about you someday'Our narrator understands good love stories - their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules.She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined - with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love.Decades later, she is a successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth.Written with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic, Heart the Lover is a celebration of literature and the life-long echoes of young love. This is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.

Heart the Lover

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

197 kr

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'You knew I'd write a book about you someday'Our narrator understands good love stories - their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules.She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined - with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love.Decades later, she is a successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth.Written with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic, Heart the Lover is a celebration of literature and the life-long echoes of young love. This is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.

Skriva & älska : en roman

AvLily King

Pocket, Svenska, 2024

89 kr

Omtalad amerikansk roman om en ung kvinnas sökande efter sin väg i livet

31-åriga Casey har nyss flyttat hem till Boston, skuldsatt och med krossat hjärta. Som i en bubbla rör hon sig mellan restaurangen där hon jobbar som servitris och trädgårdsskjulet som hon kallar sitt hem. Den enda fasta punkten i hennes liv är romanen som hon skrivit på i sex år.

Trots att de flesta av hennes vänner gett upp sina författardrömmar, fortsätter Casey kämpa med att balansera skrivandet och livet. När hon träffar både den unga konstnärssjälen Silas och den äldre författaren Oscar, befinner hon sig plötsligt i ett vägskäl mellan två helt olika relationer, och två helt olika liv.

Skriva & älska utforskar både kvinnligt konstnärskap och det skrämmande och spännande språnget mellan slutet på en fas i livet och början på en annan.

"Efter de första sju raderna är jag fast. Det här är en oemotståndlig bok - rolig, klok, hjärtskärande och romantisk, skriven på ett språk som är en ren njutning. /.../ Insiktsfullt om konstnärskap, kärlek och vägval." - Ingalill Mosander, Aftonbladet

"Mycket fin roman om konsten att vara kvinnlig konstnär (författare), och den svåra konsten att välja rätt väg i livet!" - Femina

"Inspirerande /.../ en smart relationsroman" - Johanna Lundin, SVT Go'kväll "Jag älskade den här boken från första stycket ... ärligt, fängslande och insiktsfullt om kreativitet och livet" - Curtis Sittenfeld

"Rent litterärt är romanen en fest med levande gestaltning när den är som bäst, psykologiskt intressanta karaktärer, spirituella dialoger, spännande miljöer, bra intrig och framåtdriv, samt framförallt en hel del underfundig komik. Betyg 5" - BTJ-häftet 9/2022, Katarina Tavakol

"Underbar, smart, innerlig" - Washington Post

Lily King är en amerikansk författare och lärare i kreativt skrivande. Skriva & älska är hennes femte roman.

Writers & Lovers

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

197 kr

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Writers & Lovers

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

123 kr

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Now you've read Heart the Lover, it's time to go back to the original . . . The New York Times bestseller from the author of Heart the Lover. Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers is Lily King's bitingly clever modern classic.‘A novel with the broad embrace of a 1990s Richard Curtis film’ – The Sunday Times‘Funny and immensely clever’ – Tessa Hadley'Gorgeous' - Elizabeth Strout'Writers & Lovers made me happy . . . suffused with hopefulness and kindness' - Ann Patchett'I loved this book from the first paragraph' - Curtis SittenfeldCasey is lost. She is mourning the death of her mother, the novel she has been writing for six years isn’t going anywhere, and her debt is soaring. Surely at thirty-one, when all her friends are getting married and having kids, she is too old for things to be this way.Then she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar – older, fascinating, complicated – walks into her life, his two boys in tow. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different futures . . .‘Exquisite . . . A warm and buoyant romance’ – The Sunday Telegraph‘Captivating’ – Madeline Miller, author of Circe‘Delightful . . . Warm, funny and sharply observed’ – Daily Mail‘Infused with tenderness and wry wit’ – The Irish Times‘Romantic and funny . . . Wonderfully life-affirming’ – Daily Express‘Witty and affecting, Writers & Lovers explores where grit can get you, even when everything appears to be falling apart’ – i newspaper

Pleasing Hour

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

131 kr

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A New York Times Notable BookThe Pleasing Hour, the debut novel by Lily King, is a profoundly moving story of family, betrayal and the naivety of youth.Young, inexperienced and fleeing a terrible personal loss, Rosie travels to France to become an au pair to the Tivot family. Nicole, the cool, distant and beautifully polished mother of the three children she cares for is impossible to connect with - there is something about the woman that both fascinates and unnerves Rosie.The same is true of the rest of the Tivot clan. Nicole’s husband, Marc, and their children all seem to be caught in an unending struggle against each other for love and acceptance. Only when Rosie is sent to care for Nicole’s now-elderly guardian – the storyteller of the family’s secrets – does she finally discover the truth. There, Rosie will learn of a past darkened by war, duplicity and a tragedy that still resonates in the Tivot’s lives.

Euphoria

AvLily King

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

319 kr

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Euphoria

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

254 kr

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Pleasing Hour

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

254 kr

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Five Tuesdays in Winter

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

258 kr

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Father of the Rain

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

258 kr

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English Teacher

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

254 kr

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Heart the Lover

AvLily King

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

366 kr

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Father of the Rain

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

130 kr

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Winner of the New England Book Award for FictionFrom Lily King, beloved author of Writers and Lovers, Father of the Rain is a mesmerising novel about the complexity and power of familial love. Gardiner Amory’s life is reeling – Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent her life negotiating her parents’ conflicting worlds: the liberal realm of her mother and the conservative, liquor-soaked life of her father. But when the pair divorces, Gardiner’s basest impulses are unleashed in a deluge, and the chasm between all of them widens.As she reaches adulthood, Daley rejects her father’s prejudices and embarks on her own life – until Gardiner hits rock bottom. Returning home to help her father get sober, Daley risks everything, including a chance at love, in an attempt to repair a trust that was broken long ago . . .'A gripping epic about a father and daughter that plumbs the dark side of a family riven by addiction and mental illness' - Entertainment Weekly

English Teacher

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

131 kr

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A Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly Best Novel‘A domestic drama with the adrenaline-fuelled beating heart of a thriller’ - ElleFrom Lily King, author of Writers and Lovers, The English Teacher is a compelling drama about the fragility of a life built from ruins and the need to protect it.Fifteen years ago, English teacher Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at the elite Fayer Academy. Living on the campus off the coast of New England, she worked to become a beloved fixture of the school – and to shelter herself and her son, Peter, from a painful secret she left behind.Then she accepts the impulsive marriage proposal of ardent widower Tom Belou, and the prescribed life Vida has constructed begins to come apart. As Peter bonds with Tom and his new step-siblings, Vida retreats further into the books she teaches. To embrace life and a chance at happiness, she will have to face the nightmares of her former self – and shed the pain she has held onto for far too long.

Heart the Lover

AvLily King

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

668 kr

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Writers & Lovers

Funny yet heartbreaking, the perfect read for fans of One Day and Normal People

AvLily King

1

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

136 kr

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Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers by Lily King is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life. Until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures . . . The New York Times Bestseller‘Captivating, potent, incisive, and wise’ – Madeline Miller, author of Circe‘Extremely funny’ – Sunday TimesRecently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing for six years isn’t going anywhere, her debt is soaring, and at thirty-one, with all her friends getting married and having kids, she feels too old for things to be this way.Then she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar – older, fascinating, troubled – walks into her life, his two boys in tow. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures. And she’s still got to write that book . . .‘Suffused with hopefulness and kindness’ – Ann Patchett‘Exquisite’ – Sunday Telegraph‘Funny and immensely clever’ – Tessa Hadley‘Reading the book feels like waiting for clouds to break – a kind of gorgeous agony’ – Guardian‘I loved this book’ – Curtis Sittenfeld

Five Tuesdays in Winter

AvLily King

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

179 kr

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'Vivid, moving, immersive' Marian Keyes'Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart' - Ann Patchett'Masterful, surprising, and satisfying' - Madeline MillerWriters & Lovers established Lily King as one of our most beloved authors of contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever, King collects ten of her finest short stories, opening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike.Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller’s unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl’s loss of innocence at the hands of her employer’s son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter’s hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King’s enduring subject of love.Lily King's literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career.

Five Tuesdays in Winter

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

119 kr

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‘Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart’ – Ann Patchett‘Masterful, surprising, and satisfying’ – Madeline MillerThe stunning short story collection from the bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and EuphoriaA reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. A widow whisks her daughter away for a holiday she can barely afford, desperate to help the two of them grieve. A neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students. A proud man rages helplessly at his granddaughter’s hospital bedside. A writer receives a visit from all of the men who have tried to suppress her voice.The romantic but brutally raw stories in Five Tuesdays in Winter explore desire, heartache, moments of shocking cruelty and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. This profoundly tender collection confirms Lily King as one of our most beloved chroniclers of the human heart.‘Vivid, moving, immersive’ – Marian Keyes‘Intimate and revealing, unflinchingly honest and insightful’ – The Observer‘Exquisite’ – Financial Times

Euphoria

AvLily King

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

131 kr

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The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller.From the author of Writers & Lovers, Euphoria is Lily King’s gripping novel inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world.‘Pretty much perfect . . . about a Margaret Mead-like character in New Guinea in the 30s, and it's so smart and rich and alive.’ – Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Romantic ComedyIn 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jungle of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone, fascinating, magnetic and famous for her controversial work. Her intelligent but aggressive husband Fen, who is uneasy with her success. And Andrew Bankson, who stumbles into the lives of this strange couple and becomes totally enthralled by Nell.The trio start to produce their best ever work, but within this passionate love triangle a firestorm of love and jealousy begins to burn out of control, threatening their bonds, their careers and, ultimately, their lives . . .‘Lily King is one of our great literary treasures’ – Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles‘Dazzling’ – Emma Donoghue, author of Room‘Taut, witty, fiercely intelligent . . . a love triangle in extremis’ – The New York Times

Euphoria

AvLily King

Inbunden, Tyska, 2015

254 kr

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Vater des Regens

AvLily King

Inbunden, Tyska

279 kr

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Writers & Lovers

AvLily King

Inbunden, Tyska, 2021

303 kr

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Hotel Seattle

AvLily King

Inbunden, Tyska, 2022

301 kr

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Vater des Regens

AvLily King

Häftad, Tyska, 2024

231 kr

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Euphoria

AvLily King

Häftad, Tyska, 2025

195 kr

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Writers & Lovers

AvLily King

Häftad, Tyska, 2022

171 kr

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Corazon El Enamorado

AvLily King

Häftad, Spanska, 2026

274 kr

Kommande

Skriva & älska : en roman

AvLily King

1

Inbunden, Svenska, 2022

219 kr

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Omtalad amerikansk roman om en ung kvinnas sökande efter sin väg i livet

31-åriga Casey har nyss flyttat hem till Boston, skuldsatt och med krossat hjärta. Som i en bubbla rör hon sig mellan restaurangen där hon jobbar som servitris och trädgårdsskjulet som hon kallar sitt hem. Den enda fasta punkten i hennes liv är romanen som hon skrivit på i sex år.

Trots att de flesta av hennes vänner gett upp sina författardrömmar, fortsätter Casey kämpa med att balansera skrivandet och livet. När hon träffar både den unga konstnärssjälen Silas och den äldre författaren Oscar, befinner hon sig plötsligt i ett vägskäl mellan två helt olika relationer, och två helt olika liv.

Skriva & älska utforskar både kvinnligt konstnärskap och det skrämmande och spännande språnget mellan slutet på en fas i livet och början på en annan.

"Efter de första sju raderna är jag fast. Det här är en oemotståndlig bok - rolig, klok, hjärtskärande och romantisk, skriven på ett språk som är en ren njutning. /.../ Insiktsfullt om konstnärskap, kärlek och vägval." - Ingalill Mosander, Aftonbladet

"Mycket fin roman om konsten att vara kvinnlig konstnär (författare), och den svåra konsten att välja rätt väg i livet!" - Femina

"Inspirerande /.../ en smart relationsroman" - Johanna Lundin, SVT Go'kväll

"Jag älskade den här boken från första stycket ... ärligt, fängslande och insiktsfullt om kreativitet och livet" - Curtis Sittenfeld

"Rent litterärt är romanen en fest med levande gestaltning när den är som bäst, psykologiskt intressanta karaktärer, spirituella dialoger, spännande miljöer, bra intrig och framåtdriv, samt framförallt en hel del underfundig komik. Betyg 5" - BTJ-häftet 9/2022, Katarina Tavakol

"Underbar, smart, innerlig" - Washington Post

Lily King är en amerikansk författare och lärare i kreativt skrivande. Skriva & älska är hennes femte roman.