Lina and June
- Author
- Genevieve Wheeler
- Narrator
- Paige Harbison
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 10 December 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'This is the epic love story I always hoped Genevieve Wheeler would write' Beck Dorey-Stein, bestselling author
The second novel from Genevieve Wheeler, author of Goodreads Best Debut Novel award nominee Adelaide.
Lina and June’s friendship shouldn’t make sense. June has her future planned to a T; Lina takes life day by day, party by party. June’s dreams are colour-coded and neatly filed, while Lina's are even too big for New York City, where she and June are university students. But after a messy night out throws the two girls together, it seems like nothing can tear them apart.
Until June’s health takes an unexpected turn for the worse.
Until Lina jets off to Paris, leaving her best friend behind.
As Lina and June’s once-intertwined lives veer off on separate paths, they’re on their own to figure out how to fix their severed bond.
Soulmates are meant to be forever. But when yours is your best friend, is the heartbreak of losing them too big to patch?
If you’ve ever lost a friend, if you’ve ever missed a friend, or if you’ve ever been a friend – you were meant to find this book.
For fans of upmarket women’s fiction with razor-sharp observations about girlhood and relationships like Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, Expectation by Anna Hope and So Thrilled For You by Holly Bourne.
Praise for Genevieve Wheeler
'Achingly beautiful, and heartbreakingly relatable’ Dana Schwartz
‘Beautifully-written, deeply-felt' Jill Santopolo
‘You’ll find it hard not to feel your own heart crack and stomach turn… Vulnerable, tender, and impossible to put down' Kirkus, Starred Review
‘Heartfelt’ Booklist
'Engrossing and poignant, full of grit and vulnerability’ Carola Lovering
'Your heart will ache' Serendipity
‘Poignant’ PopSugar
Critics Review
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An epic love story about the kind of friendship that can’t be eroded by time, distance or heartbreak. Lina & June is devastating and hopeful and funny, and I cried more times than I wish to count. Nobody writes about the gentle cruelties of life as sensitively, as generously, as Wheeler ? I already miss the world she built and her staggering observations about life and loss and everything in between
Ella Berman, author of Before We Were Innocent: Reese's Book Club
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Lina & June is a big-hearted novel about two best friends navigating the tumult of young adulthood. Together they face disappointments in romance, jobs and adventures ? but rarely in each other and never in croissants. This is the epic love story I always hoped Genevieve Wheeler would write
Beck Dorey-Stein, New York Times bestselling author of Spectacular Things
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Lovingly told and richly textured, this moving novel about a platonic coup de foudre turned lifelong friendship is full of humor and heartbreak. Wheeler renders the euphoria and safety, but also the sometimes asymmetric effort, frustration, and disappointment, behind the phrase 'best friends.' In this immersive dual coming-of-age that takes us from New York to D.C., Florida, and Paris, the central relationship is the complex love between two young women who help to raise each other
Emma Knight, bestselling author of The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
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For anyone who's been craving more books where a complicated female friendship gets to be the main love story, Genevieve Wheeler’s Lina & June is here to make your dreams come true. You'll finish this heartfelt, emotional novel and immediately want to hug your best friend
Laura Hankin, author of One-Star Romance
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Wheeler has crafted a tender and poignant platonic love story exploring the imperfect ways we handle caretaking and allowing ourselves to be cared for. At turns ebullient and heart wrenching, It left me with a craving for coq au vin, a trip to Paris, and, most of all, to text my best friend and tell her I love her
Becca Freeman, author of The Christmas Orphans Club
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Touching...Wheeler convincingly evokes the women’s bond...this offers a moving portrait of friendship
Publishers Weekly
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Details
- Author
- Genevieve Wheeler
- Narrator
- Paige Harbison
- Duration
- 7 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 December 2026
- ISBN
- 9781035913763
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Modern and Contemporary romance, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Travel and holiday
Synopsis
<b>'</b><b>Lovingly told and richly textured. . . full of humor and heartbreak' </b><i>Emma Knight, bestselling author</i><br><br><b>'This is the epic love story I always hoped Genevieve Wheeler would write'</b> <i>Beck Dorey-Stein, bestselling author</i><br><br><b>The second novel from Genevieve Wheeler, author of Goodreads Best Debut Novel award nominee <i>Adelaide</i>.</b><br><br>Lina and June’s friendship shouldn’t make sense. June has her future planned to a T; Lina takes life day by day, party by party. June’s dreams are colour-coded and neatly filed, while Lina's are even too big for New York City, where she and June are university students. But after a messy night out throws the two girls together, it seems like nothing can tear them apart.<br><br>Until June’s health takes an unexpected turn for the worse.<br><br>Until Lina jets off to Paris, leaving her best friend behind.<br><br>As Lina and June’s once-intertwined lives veer off on separate paths, they’re on their own to figure out how to fix their severed bond.<br><br>Soulmates are meant to be forever. But when yours is your best friend, is the heartbreak of losing them too big to patch?<br><br><i>If you’ve ever lost a friend, if you’ve ever missed a friend, or if you’ve ever been a friend – you were meant to find this book.</i><br><br><b>For fans of upmarket women’s fiction with razor-sharp observations about girlhood and relationships like <i>Blue Sisters</i> by Coco Mellors, <i>Expectation</i> by Anna Hope and <i>So Thrilled For You</i> by Holly Bourne.</b><br><b></b><br><b>Praise for Genevieve Wheeler</b><br><br>'Achingly beautiful, and heartbreakingly relatable’ <b>Dana Schwartz</b><br>‘Beautifully-written, deeply-felt' <b>Jill Santopolo</b><br>‘You’ll find it hard not to feel your own heart crack and stomach turn… Vulnerable, tender, and impossible to put down' <b><i>Kirkus</i>, Starred Review</b><br>‘Heartfelt’ <b><i>Booklist</i></b><br><i>'</i>Engrossing and poignant, full of grit and vulnerability’ <b>Carola Lovering</b><br>'Your heart will ache' <i><b>Serendipity</b></i><br> ‘Poignant’ <b><i>PopSugar</i></b>
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