No One Is Talking About This

‘A masterpiece’ Guardian

‘I really admire and love this book’ Sally Rooney

‘An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster’ Daily Mail

‘I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book’ David Sedaris

‘It moved me to tears’ Elizabeth Day

‘An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour’ Rowan Williams

‘One of the Best Books of 2021’ Sunday Times Guardian Daily Mail Telegraph Evening Standard The Times New Statesman Red The Observer Independent Daily Telegraph

Patricia Lockwood is the author of four books, including the 2021 novel No One Is Talking About This, an international bestseller which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and translated into 20 languages. Her 2017 memoir Priestdaddy won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and was named one of the Guardian’s 100 best books of the 21st century. She also has two poetry collections, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014) and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black (2012). Lockwood’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.