Lovesick Falls [Hardcover]

This queer take on As You Like It features first loves, friend breakups and madcap mix-ups, from award-winning author Julia Drake.

Celia Gilbert is the perfect friend—loyal, trustworthy, and committed to mending her best friends’ broken hearts.
 
She’s the reason the trio is spending the summer in Lovesick Falls, the idyllic little town where Touchstone’s sort-of-uncle’s cabin was waiting to be house-sat by three unsupervised (but totally responsible) teenagers.
 
After all, Celia, Ros, and Touchstone have been best friends since childhood. Sure, Celia is in love with Ros, and Touchstone was once in love with Celia — but that’s the beauty of a place like Lovesick Falls. If you fell in love, you could fall out.
 
Unless you can change the other person’s mind.

They started the summer closer than ever. Will living together tear them apart?Julia Drake’s debut novel The Last True Poets of the Sea received the 2020 New England Book Award, six starred reviews, and was named a 2019 Best Book of the Year byKirkus,Publishers Weekly, andBooklist, among other publications. She received her BA in Spanish from Williams College, and her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, where she also taught writing to first-year students. She currently works teaching writing to undergraduates. She lives in Philadelphia with her partner and their rescue rabbit, Ned.

With joy, wisdom, and keen insight, Drake weaves an arresting tale of three friends embarking on a summer of adventure. Using her trademark alchemy, Drake transforms Shakespeare'sAs You Like Itinto something rich and strange--a witty, profound, and romantic novel, both delightfully resonant with its inspiration, and beautifully new. Madeline Miller,New York Timesbestselling lS.