Will There Ever Be Another You
Will There Ever Be Another You
paperback
Pre-Order Published On:
27 August, 2026
Description
'Lockwood has a modern comic sensibility like no one else' The Times
'Characteristically witty, lyrical, sometimes bonkers' New York Times
The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body, she’s afraid of her own floorboards, and the lyrics of ‘What Is Love’ play over and over in her ears. ‘I’m sorry not to respond to your email,’ she writes, ‘but I live completely in the present now.’
Tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side – and with it, the chance for a blinding re-emergence into the world.
From one of our most original, inventive and prodigiously funny writers, Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent, wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781526689252 |
| ISBN10 | 1526689251 |
| Number Of Pages | 256 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
When I picked up Will There Ever Be Another You, I was immediately reminded that Lockwood has a modern comic sensibility like no one else ... She and her characters (clearly her own family) are so hilarious that you get swept up in the momentum of her wayward brain. * The Times *
Many readers may have forgotten, or perhaps memory-holed, what it was like to live through the pandemic. Lockwood offers a friendly – and characteristically witty, lyrical, sometimes bonkers – reminder in her new novel * New York Times *
Lockwood, whose mode of thought borders on the metaphysical, takes the literary “you” seriously ... Like the word “you”, it will mean something different – but surely dazzling – to each of you who reads it. * Financial Times *
Mind-melting * TIME Magazine *
The story that Lockwood’s book tells deals with sickness and recovery, but also with caretaking, companionship, and, above all, love * New Yorker *
A jaw-dropping tour de force of language and structure * Waterstones *
Patricia Lockwood balances humour with pathos in her new slippery, disorientating novel * Bookseller *
The author’s fans will find her trademark humour, originality, and depth on full display. This is a knockout * Publisher's Weekly *
There is only one Patricia Lockwood, and this surreal, silly, and sneakily profound book could only be hers * Kirkus *
Some books are not meant to be picked apart. They are watercolour gouaches that wash over us as we delight in a palimpsest of colourful impressions. Patricia Lockwood’s body of work is like this: a hymn – or ode, depending on the day – to the painful project of being human * New Republic *
This novel offers moments of hilarity, scenes of rich drama, and a dazzling number of references. It is determined to be less than the sum of its parts. It is deliberately perverse, refusing to hang together. Lockwood is not arguing that the centre cannot hold: she is showing that it does not hold -- Claire Monagle, * Australian Book Review *
It is labelled "a novel", but the subject matter of someone trying to keep the pieces together during a global pandemic is eerily real ... Prepare to be bewildered and baffled in the best way * Australian Women's Weekly *
I admire a writer so dedicated to her mode ... Frequently brilliant * Literary Review *
Author's Bio
Patricia Lockwood is the author of five books, including the 2021 novel No One Is Talking About This, an international bestseller which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and translated into 20 languages. Her 2017 memoir Priestdaddy won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and was named one of the Guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century. She also has two poetry collections, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014) and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black (2012). Lockwood's work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.