Come and Get It
One of 2024's hottest reads – chosen for Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Book Club
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THE UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING PHENOMENON SUCH A FUN AGE
'I couldn't put it down, and I didn't want to either' EMILY HENRY
'The drama is just too juicy – how could anyone resist a binge?' GUARDIAN
'Razor-sharp … Packs a huge emotional punch' DAILY MAIL
Everything comes at a price. But not everything can be paid for…
Millie is a college student, determined to graduate, get a job and buy a house. Agatha is a visiting professor, researching attitudes towards weddings and money for her new book. The thing is, in Millie's world, the best material is unfolding behind closed doors.
When Agatha offers Millie an unusual opportunity to make some extra money, the two women find themselves embroiled in a world of vengeful pranks, illicit intrigue and bad behaviour. But how much of themselves are they willing to trade to get what they want?
'Smart, funny and perceptive' i
'A perfect read' STYLIST
'Wonderfully immersive, propulsive and beautifully paced' PAUL HARDING
'Quiet and intense … A joy to read' JESSICA GEORGE
'Witty and nuanced' RED
'[An] incisive novel everyone will be talking about' TOWN AND COUNTRY
*A 2024 Book of the Year for the Washington Post, New Yorker, Elle, Vulture and Harper's Bazaar *
* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
* FEARNE COTTON'S HAPPY PLACE BOOK CLUB PICK FOR FEBRUARY *
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Reid returns after her smash hit Such a Fun Age with a sardonic and no-holds-barred comedy of manners. When Agatha Paul, a white writer in her late 30s, arrives at the University of Arkansas as a visiting professor in 2017, she is separated from her wife, a Black dancer in Chicago, and intends to write a book about contemporary weddings. She switches topics, however, after interviewing a group of entitled young women who live in a dorm for scholarship students (one, named Jenna, who cashes in on a scholarship for Mexican Americans because her grandmother is Mexican, jokingly calls herself a "cute little refugee" and considers her work study salary "fun money"). The dorm's Black resident assistant Millie Cousins, who resents the others' shamelessness, agrees to let Agatha eavesdrop on them through a wall in exchange for $20 per session. There's also sensitive scholarship student Kennedy, who is so grotesquely spoiled by her mother that she must move into a single room to accommodate all her stuff. Overlaying the narrative of Agatha's clandestine project are backstories of the principal characters, which gradually reveal sources of their ongoing pain and push the story to an explosive climax. Reid is a keen observer—every page sparkles with sharp analysis of her characters. This blistering send-up of academia is interlaced with piercing moral clarity.
