This novel is dedicated to Laurie Eustis, with love.
About the Author
Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York City and educated at Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of seven novels, including The Devil and Webster, You Should Have Known (adapted as the 2020 HBO series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland), Admission (adapted as the 2013 film of the same name, starring Tina Fey, Lily Tomlin and Paul Rudd), The White Rose, The Sabbathday River and A Jury of Her Peers. With Paul Muldoon she adapted James Joyce’s The Dead as an immersive theatrical event, The Dead 1904. She and her husband, poet Paul Muldoon, are the parents of two children and live in New York City. A new novel, The Latecomer, will be published in 2022.
Also by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Devil and Webster
You Should Have Known
Admission
The White Rose
The Sabbathday River
A Jury of Her Peers
Interference Powder
The Dead, 1904 (with Paul Muldoon)
The Properties of Breath
Copyright
First published in the UK in 2021
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First published in the USA in 2021
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