From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author ofThe Rest of Our Lives
"Elegant and absorbing."—Guardian
"Hugely enjoyable."—Observer
"Intimate, funny . . . Masterfully done."—Daily Mail
"Sophisticated and engrossing."—Literary Review
Paul is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. His girlfriend Dana is an ex-model and photographer, and together with their two-year-old son they form a tableau of the contented upper-middle-class New York family. But Paul's parents and siblings have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open, and with summer storms brewing, several generations of domestic tension are brought to boiling point . . .
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Benjamin Markovitsgrew up in Texas, London and Berlin. His novels include
Either Side of Winter,
You Don't Have to Live Like Thisand
Christmas in Austin. In 2013 Granta selected him as one of their Best of Young British Novelists and in 2015 he won the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in London.
"In tender, compassionate prose...Markovits glints through desire, ennui, misunderstanding, and love, illuminating one family's life so that it glows collectively like a human panorama." —Jonathan Lethem, author ofA Different Kind of Tension andBrooklyn Crime Novel
"Elegant, absorbing . . . What a fine ear Markovits has for the way people talk . . . Each exchange is a prolonged, expert rally, with the book as the ball, bearing the imprint of each family member in turn."—Guardian
"A book to be savored … for its granular evocation of family life . . . Hugely enjoyable.lS'
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