It Will Come Back to You

<p><b>One of the <i>Guardian</i>'s most anticipated books for 2026, t</b><b>he 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><br><br>'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' <b>ANNE ENRIGHT</b><br>'Among the most interesting writers of our generation' <i><b>INDEPENDENT</b></i><br>'Nunez accomplishes in her stories what we have come to expect of her from her marvellous novels: a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice' <b>JENNY MUSTARD</b><br>'A treasure trove' <b>PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</b><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.<br><br>'What's consistent across Nunez's books is their searching tone about the biggest of life's questions' <b><i>WASHINGTON POST</i></b><br>'Long live Sigrid Nunez' <b>LAURA MARLING</b><br>'I am committed, until one of us dies, to Nunez's novels. They are short, wise, provocative, funny' <b>DWIGHT GARNER, NEW YORK TIMES</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>'Wonderful ... Her uncertain protagonists in an uncertain world are the perfect literary creations: vexed in their own lives but delightful to encounter' <b>BIDISHA</b></p>