The first novel from master of the zeitgeist Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking About This is a classic book for our times about what it feels like to live and think online

‘Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation’ Namita Gokhale ‘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 ‘A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits’ Douglas Stuart * WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 * * A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK * ______________________________________________ This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It’s about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. It's a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time. ______________________________________________ ‘An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour’ Rowan Williams A 2021 Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening Standard, The Times, New Statesman, Red, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph

"No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood is a rare wonder. The author is razor-sharp as she takes us through the absurdities of internet living, but when the narrative shifts in the second half, and her family reel from personal tragedy, I was left in bits" - Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of SHUGGIE BAIN

"I have been in headlong love with Patricia Lockwood’s hilarious and subversive mind since her memoir Priestdaddy, but her first novel, No One Is Talking About This, sent me reeling. Everything about this book is testament to her wicked genius" - Lauren Groff, Red Magazine, Books of the Year 2021

"Lockwood is an incontrovertibly gifted writer. Her sentences are routinely surprising, her voice a startling agglomeration of poetic clarity and hectic comedy" - Guardian

"Often filthy and irreverent, sometimes extremely funny, and ultimately surprisingly poignant, No One Is Talking About This offers more proof of Lockwood’s particular genius" - Telegraph

"A work that feels intensely relevant to our fractured time . . . Wonderfully intricate" - Independent

"Lockwood has paid attention more closely than perhaps any other human on earth to what it’s like to be alive right now" - Vanity Fair

"Astonishing . . . No One Is Talking About This will frighten you, implicate you, and scrape your guts out, in the best way possible" - Esquire

"Lockwood’s conceit is smart, her prose original, hugely entertaining and witty . . . It is a story, simply, about love, selfless and delighted" - New Yorker

"A smart and sharp book that is both addictive and deeply unsettling" - Sarah Hughes, i

"What begins as an ironical story about irony becomes an intimate and moving portrait of love and grief. In this way, a novel that had been toying with the digital surface of modern life finds the tender heart pumping away beneath it all" - Wall Street Journal

"A delightfully weird look at our service to the internet (fitting in a year that gave us the “doomscroll”) and human connection and intersection" - Stylist

"A formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases" - New York Times Book Review

"The poet and essayist turns her hand to fiction in this fragmentary tale that addresses urgent questions about the absurdity of the digital world" - Harper's Bazaar

"An eagerly awaited novel . . . about a woman whose life is overwhelmed by the internet" - The Times

"Set to be one of 2021’s biggest books . . . riveting" - Daily Mail