Slow Dance

Coming in 2024 from Rainbow Rowell, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park, a novel of love and true friendship

'SEXY, SWEET, WISE AND NOSTALGIC - JANE AUSTEN'S PERSUASION FOR OUR TIMES' GABRIELLE ZEVIN

'A GORGEOUS book . . .

a beautiful, believable love story between two slightly broken people. So SWEET, but never sentimental. I YEARNED for them to be happy and I miss it now it's over' MARIAN KEYES

'Deeply human, profoundly romantic.

Rowell will break your heart and you'll thank her for it' LEIGH BARDUGO

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Everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together - everybody but Shiloh and Cary.

Slow Dance follows these star-crossed best friends from their inseparable teen years on the wrong side of the tracks to their far-flung adulthoods - through her marriage and motherhood and his time in the Navy - as they try to work out what they're actually supposed to be to each other.

Told with Rowell's trademark sensitivity and abundant wit, Slow Dance is a big, beaming power ballad of a novel about a love so true, it refuses to be forgotten.

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Who can deny the absolute, dizzy pleasure of loving a novel so much . . . I loved every page of Slow Dance, a book that is romantic to its core, and as funny and smart as its wonderful characters' EMMA STRAUB
'A will-they, won't-they second chance romance for the ages, this one is poised to be one of summer's breakout hits' PEOPLE

'A powerful and poignant tale of first love .

. . Rich, real, and emotionally raw, this satisfying contemporary is sure to impress' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Praise for Rainbow Rowell

'Rowell is talented enough to be uncategorizable' New York Times

'Cracking, laugh-out-loud dialogue, characters that feel painfully real' Jodi Picoult

'Reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book' John Green