Beth O'Leary

The funny, heart-breaking and uplifting new novel from the bestselling author of The Flatshare Three women. Three dates. One missing man... 8.52. Siobhan's been looking forward to her breakfast date with Joseph. She was surprised when he suggested it - she normally sees him late at night in her hotel room. Breakfast with Joseph on Valentine's Day surely means something ... so where is he? 14.43. Miranda's hoping that a Valentine's Day lunch with Carter will be the perfect way to celebrate her new job. It's a fresh start and a sign that her grown-up life is finally falling into place: she's been dating Carter for five months now and things are getting serious. But why hasn't he shown up? 18.30. Joseph Carter agreed to be Jane's fake boyfriend at a colleague's engagement party. They've not known each other long but their friendship is fast becoming the brightest part of her new life in Winchester. Joseph promised to save Jane tonight. But he's not here... Meet Joseph Carter. That is, if you can find him. The No-Show is the brilliantly funny, heart-breaking and joyful new novel from Beth O'Leary about dating, and waiting, and the ways love can find us. An utterly extraordinary tearjerker of a book, this is O'Leary's most ambitious novel yet. 'Sweepingly romantic, bursting with character, and so, so clever I gasped out loud' Gillian McAllister 'The No-Show is audaciously clever, full of O'Leary's trademark warmth, and it will break your heart in a million different ways. It's phenomenal' Louise O'Neill HEAR WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING ABOUT BETH'S NOVELS: 'Nobody does it like Beth does' Laura Jane Williams on The Road Trip 'So charming, so sweet and so lovely' Marian Keyes on The Switch 'O'Leary has a knack for articulating the things we all think and feel in relationships' Gillian McAllister on The Road Trip 'This book is perfect' Rosie Walsh on The Road Trip 'O'Leary is such a wonderful writer . . . Joyful and uplifting' Sheila O'Flanagan on The Road Trip 'Brilliant, warm, funny, full of heart' Richard Roper on The Switch 'Heart-warming and uplifting' Heidi Swain on The Switch 'An utterly gorgeous, beautiful book, full of feeling' Lindsey Kelk on The Switch 'The romcom of the year - a Sleepless in Seattle for the 21st century' Sunday Express on The Flatshare 'I devoured The Flatshare. Original, funny and touching. Read it' Clare Mackintosh on The Flatshare

The heart-warming new novel from the author of The Flatshare and The Switch

The No-Show

Aubrey Erskine

Jenna-Lee Gordon

It’s more like, with AJ . . . I know he’d give me the key.’

Most people are shit, what are you going to do about it? And she thinks, I’m going to notice all the ones who are doing there best not to be

Emma Wolfe

As a rule, she prefers plants and cats to humans these days: they're both species with a much better track record.

María | @AltroReader

I think you're my woman worth settling dow for, Miranda Rosso. I think you're my one.

It's a kiss that should happened a thousand times already, but could only ever happen here, now, with so many truths between them.

Elli Barnette

It’s one’s of those feelings, happiness. One of the ones you don’t really notice is gone until it comes back.

Silvia

Books are my happy place, he’d told her, and she’d felt herself light up, because that’s exactly what they are to her, too.

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