Our Country Friends

New York Times Bestseller Good Morning America Buzz Pick One Of The Best Books Of The Year- The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature. Molly Young, The New York Times (Editors' Choice)Eight friends, one country house, and six months in isolationa novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal hailed as a virtuoso performance (Usa Today) and an homage to Chekhov with four romances and a finale that will break your heart (The Washington Post)In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most.