Review: Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

Blurb from Goodreads:

By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King's first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories

Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl's loss of innocence at the hands of her employer's son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King's enduring subject of love.

My Review:
Lily King wrote my favorite book of the last five years, Writers & Lovers, so I was incredibly excited for her first collection of stories.  It did not disappoint! Although I don't usually gravitate to short story collections as a rule, I am reading more and more collections that are so beautiful, including this one. There were the same themes of coming of age, yearning, writing . . . and all put together through various lenses.  My favorite stories from this collection were Creature, Five Tuesdays in Winter, Timeline, and Mansard but the entire collection is worth buying and reading.

Five Tuesdays in Winter comes out next week on November 9, 2021, and you can purchase HERE!  I love Lily King and cannot recommend everything by her enough!

But I didn't know that it could be not special with someone you liked.