One of Cosmopolitan UK's Best Erotic Novels of All Time

"Brief, sharp, and utterly consuming. . . Like your first love, it lingers long after the final chapter." - Tegan Quin

"A contemporary classic of queer women's writing." - Michelle Tea

"Her prose has a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic." - Cheryl Strayed

"[A] gorgeously composed queer novel that's about so much more than romantic love." -Vogue

The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer's whirlwind and whiplash affair as she falls deeply in love with a woman for the first time.

Sometimes I wonder what it is I could tell you about her for my job here to be done. I am looking for a short-cut. . . .But that would be asking too much from you. It wasn't you who loved her.

A young writer moves from the country to the city and falls in love with another woman for the very first time. From the start, the relationship is doomed; Finn is nineteen years older, wears men's clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile . . . and a long-term girlfriend.

With startling clarity and breathtaking tenderness, Chlo