The Idea of You

Critics Review

• The sleeper hit of the pandemic … a glittering, global love affair full of bougie, vicarious travel. It’s electric, triumphant, to read

  Vogue

• This slayed me. It’s the story of a single mom who starts an affair with a rock star in a boy band. She takes that premise and turns it into this incredible, effective, moving, honest, human love story

  Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones and the Six and Malibu Rising

• I DEVOURED this! The world-building and psychology around the romance was so good, and boy did the ending break me … the book we really just NEED right now

  Holly Bourne

• I’m madly in love with this novel

  Curtis Sittenfeld

• Fun, sexy, intelligent, I LOVED it

  Prima

• My book of the year! The writing is sharp and believable and the sex scenes are so scorchio that soon you too will stan for Harry Styles #ifyouknowyouknow

  Red

• Steamy and sexy, this is escapism at its absolute finest. I spent the hours in between binges fantasising about the characters and what they were up to. The three days I spent reading this were blissful

  Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop

• An addictive, glamorous, escapist page-turner – and pure wish fulfilment for Harry Styles fans

  Daily Record

• Glorious, glamorous, dizzying escapism that has consumed me for the last day. I am not over it

  Cressida McLaughlin, bestselling author of The Cornish Cream Tea Bus

• Summer’s sauciest, sexiest read. This book has ruined my life and I’m not even mad about it

  Red

• As the pages turned and the minutes passed, The Idea of You managed to work the ultimate book magic: It blurred the boundary between this world and that one

  Elena Nicolaou, Oprah Magazine

• An OMG page-turner that literally sucks you in from page one to the last few words. I found myself yearning for more, needing, really, to know what happens next…it’s that good

  Gabrielle Union

• You finally have something else to obsess about […] will have you staying up all night to finish

  The Skimm

• Captures what fame looks like, and how it affects us all…a fun, juicy love story

  Elizabeth Banks

• An honest and elegant book about modern love in the age of uber-celebrity and social media

  Hill Harper

• Not only is this romance a fun ride, but it also draws on themes of celebrity and sexism that will give you something to think about after you’re done

  Bustle

• A fascinating, thought-provoking, genre-bending romantic read

  Kirkus Reviews

• Sexy enough for the beach, smart enough for the book club

  Book Circle

• I can’t put this down… the anticipation of the slow burning relationship is completely compelling

  Alex Brown, bestselling author of A Postcard from Italy

• A sizzling summer love story that I couldn’t put down

  Lynsey James, author of The Single Dad's Handbook