Patricia Lockwood

Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017 Vogue Glorious Sunday Times Laugh out loud funny The Times Extraordinary Observer Exceptional Telegraph Electric New York Times Snort out loud Financial Times Dazzling Guardian Do yourself a favour and read this memoir BookPageWINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOURThe childhood of Patricia Lockwood the poet dubbed The Smutty Metaphor Queen of Lawrence Kansas by The New York Times was unusual in many respects There was the location an impoverished nuclear waste riddled area of the American Midwest There was her mother a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and arnings of impending danger Above all there was her gun toting guitar riffing frequently semi naked father who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI despite already having a wife and children When an unexpected crisis forces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents rectory she must learn to live again with the family s simmering madness and to reckon with the dark side of her religious upbringing Pivoting from the raunchy to the sublime from the comic to the

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 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 WHAT IS LOVE BABY DON T HURT ME plays 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 But 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 Praise for Patricia Lockwood and No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation Namita Gokhale I really admire and love this book Sally Rooney I can t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book David Sedaris A rare wonder I was left in bits Douglas Stuart

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A masterpiece'Guardian'I really admire and love this book' Sally Rooney'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster'Daily Mail'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book' David Sedaris'It moved me to tears' Elizabeth DayTHE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021______________________________________________