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Getting It Right
- Author
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Narrator
- Ben Allen
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 13 August 2026
- Run Time
- 14 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Winner of the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award.
From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Getting It Right is a touching comedy about a young man trying desperately to come of age.
Gavin – a sensitive, shy, hairdresser in the West End – is, at thirty-one, still a virgin. He's a classic late developer, and he's worried that it's getting too late to develop at all.
Then, one night, Gavin finds himself at a penthouse party. There, he meets new people – the likes of which he's never come across before. Suddenly, everything begins to change. Over the next fortnight, Gavin might start, at last, to 'get it right' . . .
'Sometimes sad but more frequently hilarious . . . Getting It Right gets it, comically, right' – Evening Standard
Critics Review
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Crammed with incidental pleasures . . . sometimes sad but more frequently hilarious . . . Getting It Right gets it, comically, right.
Evening Standard
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Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her
Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
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Details
- Author
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Narrator
- Ben Allen
- Duration
- 14 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 August 2026
- ISBN
- 9781037419782
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Modern and Contemporary romance, Classic fiction: literary and general, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
Synopsis
Winner of the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award.From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Getting It Right is a touching comedy about a young man trying desperately to come of age.Gavin – a sensitive, shy, hairdresser in the West End – is, at thirty-one, still a virgin. He's a classic late developer, and he's worried that it's getting too late to develop at all.Then, one night, Gavin finds himself at a penthouse party. There, he meets new people – the likes of which he's never come across before. Suddenly, everything begins to change. Over the next fortnight, Gavin might start, at last, to 'get it right' . . .'Sometimes sad but more frequently hilarious . . . Getting It Right gets it, comically, right' – Evening Standard
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