We Go Way Back

A beautifully woven epic love story, filled with characters who leap off the page and into your heart, We Go Way Back is a sparkling debut that will make you laugh and cry and stay up way too late turning the pages – Annabel Monaghan
We Go Way Back brims with yearning and nostalgia as two soulmates try to reconcile twenty years of shared history in three days … before one marries somebody else. The tension between Frances and Callum crackles off the page - I couldn’t put this down – Emma Brodie
We Go Way Back is the love story I didn’t know I needed. Wholly immersive, I ignored everything important in order to keep reading. I loved it! – Jennie Godfrey
An electric love story for anyone who has ever convinced themselves that they were over it, who believes that timing is everything (until it’s terrible), or who wants to laugh, ache and be reminded of how big, strange and generous life can be. Funny, tender, true. Niamh Connolly writes the way life feels – Cecilia Rabess
Niamh Connolly’s bighearted We Go Way Back illuminates the lives of two kindred souls destined to be together. Or are they? I couldn’t stop turning the pages of this tender will-they-won’t-they tale until I found out – Heather Aimee O’Neill
I devoured this novel. With grace, precision, and immense emotional intelligence, Connolly captures the exquisite ache of longing. Beautifully written and utterly absorbing – Loretta Rothschild
We Go Way Back is a love story that is deeply sexy and sad and funny and unafraid of its characters’ pain. Achingly honest, deft in its balance of bluntness and sincerity, it made me feel less alone and also turned me on … What more could one ask for, really? – Eva Victor
I could write a book about this book, but instead I’ll just say: read it, please - everything they told you about it is right, you really will struggle to put it down – Ore Agbaje-Williams
Honestly the best romance I’ve read for years. I fell in love with the characters and ached with loss when it ended – Josie Lloyd
Funny, heart-wrenching and completely divine. My favourite kind of love story – Hannah Beer
A heartfelt love story about the long tail of grief and trauma. I stayed up half the night reading it – Niamh Hargan
Prepare to fall in love with Callum and Frances. This is an extraordinarily special book - so nostalgic, moving, funny, and beautifully written – Louise O’Neill
If you could encapsulate yearning into a single novel it would be this one. The love, care and tenderness in We Go Way Back is addictive – Shahed Ezaydi
The love story you need in 2027. A tender, heart-wrenching, smart, will-they-won’t-they tale that is so much more – Natasha Poliszczuk
I couldn’t put this book down to save my own life; I felt Niamh Connolly’s characters in my bones. We Go Way Back is Normal People meets My Best Friend’s Wedding by a fresh voice in fiction - a masterful love story I’ll be thinking about for a long time – Carola Lovering
I had a blast reading it. It’s sharp, sweet and relatable, with a wicked turn of phrase. Gobbled it up in a weekend – Harry Lighton, writer-director, Pillion
Beautiful can’t-stop-reading storytelling – Jessica Stanley
Soul-wringingly gorgeous. Shot through with the yearning, longing, and embarrassment of youth, it is bittersweet and funny and tender. It beautifully portrays the anguish and euphoria of first love – Emma van Straaten
I inhaled this book in one transfixed sitting. An epic love story with nerve-shredding sexual tension, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll scream into a cushion. Connolly writes with humour and compassion, insight and skill – Edel Coffey
Declaring my love for this book without hesitation or fear, in a way these wonderful, funny, infuriating, heartbreaking characters just can’t! I’ve never read such a warm story set in such cold Irish houses. Niamh Connolly, what a spectacular debut! – Rebecca Fallon
We Go Way Back had me turning the pages late into the night, often through tears. Stunning, searing and sexy, this is an epic, decades-spanning love story that will make you believe in soulmates – Emilia Hart
I read this in under 24 hours, the rest of the world dead to me as I feverishly turned the pages. It all felt so real: the friendships, the emotional fragility, and above all, the unbreakable bond between Frances and Callum. A gorgeously written and achingly true love story – Holly Brickley
I devoured this novel. Propulsive, clever and full of heart. It’s Alison Espach’s The Wedding People meets Sally Rooney’s Normal People – Madeleine Gray
A total delight. Will melt the hardest of hearts, Connolly has managed to capture pure romance, whilst weaving in humour and grief. A joy from beginning to end – Cariad Lloyd

Niamh Connolly is an Irish writer from Cork. She holds an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) from the University of East Anglia, and a BA in English and History from University College Cork. In 2024, Niamh won the Women’s Prize Discoveries award, from almost 3,000 entries, with the opening of We Go Way Back.

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