Lily King

The Waterstones Podcast by Waterstones

Jun 9, 202600:24:22Arts

Through her writing about love, Lily King has made readers care deeply about her characters and what life does to them. A year on from Heart The Lover's publication and after a month as our fiction pick, we finally got t...

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