‘An absolute delight’ Dolly Alderton
‘This generation’s One Day‘ Elizabeth Day
‘One of the great modern love stories’ Tom Newlands
All the best parts of an English summer lie ahead the morning that Jude is knocked off his bike. His future hangs there, just out of reach, until everything disappears.
Over the next five years, set on different paths by the loss of the same person, Jude’s new girlfriend Jem and best friend Harry attempt to navigate life without him. But while Harry misses the person he knew best, Jem quickly discovers that she barely knew her boyfriend at all. How are you supposed to move on when it’s no longer clear exactly what you lost?
As their lives are drawn together by their newly connected circle of friends, Jem and Harry find themselves increasingly bound by feelings that only the other can understand – and the possibility that life might turn a corner, any day now . . .
Moving, funny and life-affirming, Any Day Now is an unforgettable love story about the heartbreaks that shape us and the happiness we find in the most unlikely places.
‘Reminded me why I fell in love with novels in the first place’ Jenna Bush Hager
‘Tender, graceful, and deeply engrossing’ Jenny Jackson
‘An all-time great love story’ Marianne Levy
‘This generation’s One Day‘ Elizabeth Day
‘One of the great modern love stories’ Tom Newlands
All the best parts of an English summer lie ahead the morning that Jude is knocked off his bike. His future hangs there, just out of reach, until everything disappears.
Over the next five years, set on different paths by the loss of the same person, Jude’s new girlfriend Jem and best friend Harry attempt to navigate life without him. But while Harry misses the person he knew best, Jem quickly discovers that she barely knew her boyfriend at all. How are you supposed to move on when it’s no longer clear exactly what you lost?
As their lives are drawn together by their newly connected circle of friends, Jem and Harry find themselves increasingly bound by feelings that only the other can understand – and the possibility that life might turn a corner, any day now . . .
Moving, funny and life-affirming, Any Day Now is an unforgettable love story about the heartbreaks that shape us and the happiness we find in the most unlikely places.
‘Reminded me why I fell in love with novels in the first place’ Jenna Bush Hager
‘Tender, graceful, and deeply engrossing’ Jenny Jackson
‘An all-time great love story’ Marianne Levy
Reviews
Any Day Now is one of the great modern love stories; big-hearted and life affirming, epic in scope yet intimate in its observations. Hale writes about love, and the yearning for love, with such clarity and feeling that her debut bears comparison to the work of David Nicholls
Moving, funny and joyful, Any Day Now is both an entirely relatable coming-of-adulthood novel and an all-time great love story. I loved watching the characters find their way and didn't want it to end
I've never read a book like it. It looks at grief and love and what it means to feel you knew someone deeply without having known them for long. I think it's going to be this generation's One Day
Full of warmth and hard-won hope, Any Day Now is an absolute delight
Bethia Hale has crystalized shattering loss into a story that is tender, graceful, and deeply engrossing. Like Ann Napolitano and Coco Mellors, Hale helps us see the great beauty in life - and love - after tragedy
Reading Any Day Now reminded me why I fell in love with novels in the first place. It has the emotional intelligence of Sally Rooney's Normal People, the aching romance of David Nicholls' One Day, and the dark humour that made The Wedding People such a sensation. Hale writes with remarkable clarity about love - not only romantic love but friendship, memory and the ways we continue caring for people long after they're gone . . . Heartbreaking, funny and profoundly life-affirming, Any Day Now is the kind of debut that lingers beyond the last page