Lost on Me: The hilarious Italian bestseller loved by Katherine Heiny, Monica Ali and Naoise Dolan: the perfect summer read for 2023

Lost on Me is a prize-winning Italian bestseller that has been named the Financial Times, Irish Times, New European, Marie Claire, and Largehearted Boy Book of the Year for 2023. It is a delightfully funny novel about sex, love, family, and how a writer transforms her life into art. Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family, and as she becomes an adult, her need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations. She falls in love repeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates. The book is narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate and explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 03 August 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

The prize-winning 100,000-copy Italian bestseller
A 2023 book of the year for the
Financial Times,
the
Irish Times,
the
New European,
Marie Claire,
and
Largehearted Boy
Deliciously enjoyable
Katherine Heiny
I adored it
Naoise Dolan
Wild, funny and disturbing
Roddy Doyle
Thrillingly original
Monica Ali
It would be simply impossible for a book this good to go unnoticed
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A delightfully funny Italian novel about sex, love, family - and how a writer transforms her life into art
Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family:
an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety,
a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions,
and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention.
As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations:
she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris at the age of fifteen;
she moves into an unwitting older boyfriend's house after they have been together for less than a week;
and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico.
Most of all, she falls in love - repeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates.
As she continues to plot escapades and her mother's relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn, it is no wonder that Vero becomes a writer - and a liar - inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity.
Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, Lost on Me seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity (beginning with Vero's first artistic achievement: a painting she steals from her mother).
With its sharp wit, relatable characters, and surprising twists, Lost on Me is a must-read for anyone who loves a good laugh, a touching story, and a glimpse into the complex inner workings of the human mind.
So grab a copy and get ready to be lost in the hilarious and heartwarming world of Vero and her unforgettable family.

Weight: 338g
Dimension: 223 x 144 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349017662