Come and Get It: One of 2024's hottest reads – chosen for Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Book Club - Softcover

Reid, Kiley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526632551 ISBN 13: 9781526632555

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

THE UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING PHENOMENON SUCH A FUN AGE

*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 *

'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 wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. She's slowly saving up from her job on campus, but when a visiting professor offers her an unusual opportunity to make some extra money, she jumps at the chance.

Agatha is a writer, recovering from a break-up while researching attitudes towards weddings and money for her new book. She strikes gold when interviewing the girls in Millie's dorm, but her plans take a turn when she realises that the best material is unfolding behind closed doors.

As the two women form an unlikely relationship, they soon become embroiled in a world of roommate theatrics, vengeful pranks and illicit intrigue - and are forced to question just how much of themselves they are willing to trade to get what they want.

Sharp, intimate and provocative, Come and Get It takes a lens to our money-obsessed society in a tension-filled story about desire, consumption and bad behaviour.

'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

About this title

About the Author

KILEY REID earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship and taught creative writing with a focus on race and class. Such a Fun Age, her first book, was both a Sunday Times and a New York Times bestseller and was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. She lives in Philadelphia.

kileyreid.com | @kileyreid

From the Back Cover

It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.

A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion and bad behaviour - and the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.

PRAISE FOR KILEY REID AND SUCH A FUN AGE

'The book of the year' Independent
'A new literary star' The Times
'Essential. This year's hit debut' Guardian
'A biting tale of race and class' Sunday Times
'I couldn't put this down' Jojo Moyes
'A startling, razor-sharp debut ... Wildly fun and breathtakingly wise' Taylor Jenkins-Reid
'A gripping page-turner with serious things to say about racism, class, gender, parenting and privilege' Madeline Miller

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526632551
• ISBN 13: 9781526632555
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400