No One Is Talking About This

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Bloomsbury presents No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, read by Kristen Sieh.

‘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


THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
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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.

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‘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

Critics Review

Astonishing and wholly original . . . Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation of new writers who grew up under the constant pressures of real-time news and social media
Namita Gokhale, Chair judge for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2022
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
I finally read No One Is Talking About This after everyone recommending it to me all year, and I'm so, so happy I did. Please, please read this book
Lorde
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
Reading Patricia Lockwood feels like looking through a kaleidoscope built by a mischievous sorcerer — the world is suddenly rearranged in fragments that are cosmic, wondrous, humiliating, and profane. No One Is Talking About This is a furiously original novel, alive and unstable; the book builds to a reminder of how devastation and connection produce each other, endlessly and surprisingly, both on the internet and in human places that our shared digital consciousness can never reach
Jia Tolentino
Lockwood is a phenomenal writer who is a keen observer of . . . the fragility of the human heart
Roxane Gay
Hilarious, affectionate and deeply-felt. There is nothing that Lockwood – and I don't say this lightly – can’t do
Nicole Flattery, author of SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME
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 first half is a series of unbelievably accurate and funny and insightful takes on what it means to live in the internet of the modern age, and the second half swivels and becomes a kind of personal, family dynamic … It moved me to tears
Elizabeth Day
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
I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet
Sally Rooney

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