It Will Come Back to You

<p><b>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY <i>VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, LA TIMES </i>AND <i>BOSTON GLOBE </i>- AND ONE OF THE <i>GUARDIAN'S </i>MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS FOR 2026</b><Br> <b><Br> The first ever collection of short stories from the<i> New York Times</i> bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of <i>The Friend</i></b></p><p><b>'Wryly funny and slyly provocative' </b><i>DAILY MAIL</i><Br><b>'Sigrid Nunez creates whole lives in fewer than 20 pages' </b>JOHN SELF, <i>THE TIMES</i><Br><b>'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' </b>ANNE ENRIGHT<Br><Br> <i>It Will Come Back to You </i>takes in thirteen stories - never before collected together - from a career spanning three decades, which has seen Nunez become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices. Moving from an inappropriate teenage crush to a therapist's second chance at love, in this collection Nunez maintains her irrepressible humour, bite, and insight, while exploring the philosophical questions we have come to expect from her writing.</p><p><b>'Among the most interesting writers of our generation' </b><i>INDEPENDENT</i></p><p><b><i>'It Will Come Back to You </i>should make you want to imbibe every word Nunez has ever written' </b><i>TLS</i></p><p><b>'A strange, perceptive and unsettling look at the lives of ordinary people' </b><i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i><Br><Br><b>'One of American fiction's most crisp and realized voices. Like the food in a good restaurant, her prose is excellent but unfussy' </b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i><Br><Br> <b>'Nunez injects these stories with a deep tenderness and a wry sense of humor, all the while challenging our conceptions of what it means to live an ordinary life' </b><i>HARPERS BAZAAR</i>, 'Best Summer Books 2026'<Br><b><Br> 'Nunez [has] a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice' </b>JENNY MUSTARD</p><p><b>'One of the great writers of our time . . . Reading [Nunez's] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend' </b><i>LOS ANGELES TIMES</i></p><p><b>'The stories show [Nunez's] gift for turning apparently ordinary lives into something stranger, funnier and more searching than they first appear'</b> <i>iPAPER, '</i>The best new books to read in July 2026'<b><Br><Br> 'Long live Sigrid Nunez'</b> LAURA MARLING</p><p><b>'Nunez [has] a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice' </b>JENNY MUSTARD<Br> <b>'One of the great writers of our time . . . Reading [Nunez's] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend'</b> <i>LOS ANGELES TIMES</i><Br> <b><Br> 'A treat' </b><i>OPRAH DAILY</i>, 'Best Books of the Summer 2026'<Br> <b><Br> 'There are two kinds of people in the world, people who haven't read Sigrid Nunez, and people who love Sigrid Nunez' </b>CLAIRE KOHDA<b><Br><Br> 'Wonderful . . . Her uncertain protagonists in an uncertain world are the perfect literary creations: vexed in their own lives but delightful to encounter' </b>BIDISHA</p>