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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
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A semi-famous artist turns forty-five and gives herself a gift – a cross-country road trip from LA to New York, without her husband and child. But thirty minutes after setting off, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel – and embarks on the journey of a lifetime.

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It’s very funny, quite dirty, and deeply profound, with a fragile magic that comes from entering an uncensored inner world. There is the added thrill as well, of July suggesting that midlife, and menopause in particular, might be kind of . . . hot * * Observer * * Rage, grief, lust, sadness, selfishness; this stunning book and July’s nameless heroine have it all. I cannot wait to read it all over again — GILLIAN ANDERSON A life-changer for me. I thought I was reading about middle age, then I thought I was reading about menopause, then motherhood, then sexuality, then monogamy, then marriage. And by the final page I realised I was reading about existence and death and I couldn’t stop crying. Plus it’s so funny and it’s so horny. My favourite novel of this year — DOLLY ALDERTON A giddy, bold, mind-blowing tour de force by one of our most important literary writers. Funny, honest, rich with the energy of the mind, All Fours will jump-start your relation to language and cause you to think anew about the nature of desire — GEORGE SAUNDERS Transcendent . . . A book that emboldens you. To read it, is to feel gloriously, unashamedly alive — PANDORA SYKES One of the freshest, funniest, most urgent voices I’ve read in a long time . . . Authentic and willingly honest. I couldn’t put the book down. What a delight — HUGH JACKMAN Wild and outrageous, provocative and entirely unpredictable — DAVID NICHOLLS Essential . . . A book of vast scope, taking in men and women, the mind and the body, and society and solitude * * Guardian * * July comes into her own [and] brings a new perspective . . . A menopause novel that’s never boring * * Sunday Times * * Voyeuristic and exploratory . . . Miranda July compels us with her provocations * * Times Literary Supplement * *