ThirtySomething

Your first love doesn't have to be your best love

By turns tender and hopeful and searing and spicy, this new book from the author of Tropesick upends the tired old 'first love' trope, and tells an altogether more interesting story, of the connections forged after heartache, and, perhaps, of the best being yet to come .

Greta is a washed-up party girl, forced to move back to her native Miami for the summer after running out of money. Recovering from surgery, childhood friend and recent divorcee Nate also finds himself back on Miami's overheated shores against his will.

As one long, hot day melts into another, the pair come up with a scheme to fill the time - as a joke they'll recreate a coming-of-age movie, playing off every tired convention the genre has to offer. Get stoned in a 7-11 parking lot, but in your 30s? Why not. Go on a multi-day quest as a rite of passage? Sure. Especially if it's to find an obscure favourite ice cream flavour.

But soon real life starts to intrude, and the supposedly light-hearted game becomes all-too-real, surfacing their deepest shames and their impossible, rapidly growing attachment to each other.

Will they each go back to the adult lives they've resigned themselves to? Or is it really never too late to come of age?

UK Delivery:

• Free delivery on all orders of £10 or more.
• £1.49 delivery fee on orders below £10.
• UK orders are shipped via Royal Mail 2nd Class.

International Delivery:

• Flat rate delivery charges vary by country.

Dispatch and Delivery Times:

• All orders are shipped from our warehouse in Northampton, UK within 48 hours of receipt during working hours.
• UK mainland orders typically arrive within 3-5 working days via Royal Mail 2nd Class.
• International estimated delivery times:
• Europe & Channel Islands: 7 to 10 working days
• USA: 7 to 15 working days
• Rest of the World: 9 to 21 working days

View our full delivery infomation here.