Emily Gould's dazzling novel traces, with wit and honesty, the evolution of a friendship between two New Yorkers as they confront their thirties.

Bev and Amy are best friends but, at thirty, they have reached a crossroads. Bev is stuck in circumstances that would barely have passed muster in her twenties: temping, living in a shared house, drowning in debt. Amy is a fiercely charismatic media darling still riding the tailwinds of early success, but reality is catching up with her. And now Bev is unexpectedly pregnant. As the two friends are dragged into genuine adulthood, they are forced to contemplate the possibility that growing up might mean growing apart.

"A dazzling debut" - Glamour

"Funny and illuminating . . . A clever, sharp novel about proper growing up" - Red

"Provides . . . enlightening insights into what it is to be female and coming of age in twenty-first-century New York, but there's the warm glow of real friendship too" - Daily Mail

"A sharp study of female friendship, that treacherous terrain where envy and deep fondness often go hand in hand" - Observer

"Emily Gould is massively talented, just as good at devastating us with an emotional truth as she is at amusing us with a clever joke" - Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep and Sisterland