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‘Extraordinary, inventive, perfectly observed … bound to be a classic’ MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER

‘A thrilling debut’ BRIT BENNET

‘I couldn’t put it down’ CATHERINE NEWMAN

Three best friends from university, burning brightly on the cusp of adulthood, face a loss that tests and transforms them, in this stunning, inventive debut.

Hannah, Vera, June and Peyton have spent four years of university tying their lives into one happy, inextricable knot. They paper over one another’s flaws, keep each other’s confidences and challenge one another’s assumptions. Whatever comes their way, they know they’ll face it together. Until one spring night just before graduation, when an unthinkable accident occurs and the group of four becomes three.

Over the course of that fateful summer, the three remaining girls navigate their grief and attempt to get their adult lives off the ground. One discovers a new romance, a second falls out of love and a third loses herself in dangerous distraction. But after one of them taps into their lost friend’s phone, the group circles closer and closer to a hidden secret waiting to be exposed and a truth that will transform them all.

Laced with wit and woven in ingenious storytelling, Don’t You Miss It is a heart-wrenching, infectious ode to friendship and a reminder that true connection with others is how we come to know ourselves. Julia Pike shows us that sometimes it is our closest friends alone that can keep us moving forward, even when what we really want, more than anything, is to go back.

‘Gorgeous … broke my heart and put it back together again’ JENNIE GODFREY, author of The Barbecue at No. 9

‘One of the best portrayals of female friendship I’ve read in a long time’ LOUISE O’NEILL, author of Whatever Happened to Madeline Stone?

‘I have been waiting for a book like this for years’ AMITY GAIGE, author of Heartwood

‘Beautifully delivers the warmth and complications of friendship’ MEG WOLITZER, author of The Interestings

‘Oh, to be young and in love with your friends … a massive hit of nostalgic dopamine’ CATHERINE NEWMAN, author of Wreck

Publisher Review

'Extraordinary. Lyrical, inventive, perfectly observed and utterly original, Julia Pike's novel about love and loss among four college friends is bound to be a classic in its genre' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace 'A funny, propulsive, and tender novel about the hidden selves lurking inside the best of friendships. What a thrilling debut!' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half 'Beautifully delivers the warmth and complications of friendship ... an exciting and accomplished novel that made me want to keep reading and reading' Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings 'This is such a tender, heartfelt portrait of grief and growing up, and one of the best portrayals of female friendship I've read in a long time' Louise O'Neill, author of Whatever Happened to Madeline Stone? 'This brought back all the complicated joy and heartache found in the deep bonds of early female friendships. A wonderful, beautifully written debut' Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground 'A gorgeous, accomplished, emotional and propulsive novel that I am struggling to believe is a debut. It broke my heart and put it back together again' Jennie Godfrey, author of The Barbecue at No. 9 'Oh, to be young and in love with your friends ... For me, Don't You Miss It was a massive hit of nostalgic dopamine ... I couldn't put it down. Julia Pike is an astonishingly gifted writer' Catherine Newman, author of Wreck 'Heartbreaking and beautiful ... A tender and moving novel about being in love with your friends and trying (longing!) to fall in love with your life' Kate Young, author of Experienced 'So sad and so joyful, brimming with the liberation and angst of the very best friendships. I loved it' Holly Gramazio, author of The Husbands 'A riveting, exquisitely satisfying front-row seat to deep female friendship. Pike's writing shimmers with wit, sensation, and warmth. I have been waiting for a book like this for years' Amity Gaige, author of Heartwood