Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: THE WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION

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Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming * RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * JIMMY FALLON BOOK CLUB PICK * GRAZIA SUMMER READING PICK * AN OPRAH FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR * 'I just love this book and I hope you love it too' JOHN GREEN, TikTok 'I recently read this book and loved it ' CELESTE NG, Washington Post This is not a romance, but it is about love Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world -- of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love - making games to delight, challenge and immerse players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. Their collaborations make them superstars. This is the story of the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success- Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest as it examines the nature of identity, creativity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play and, above all, our need to connect- to be loved and to love. 'I cannot recommend it highly enough' HANK GREEN, Instagram 'A beautifully wrought saga of human connection and the creative process, of love and all of its complicated levels' ERIN MORGENSTERN, author of The Night Circus 'You don't have to be a gamer to enjoy this story about two brilliant young game designers growing famous, then growing apart' Observer 'A novel that treasures the act of play and holds it sacred' Guardian 'You needn't be a gamer to be charmed by this immersive tale of friendship, creativity and life's messy wonders' Mail on Sunday ' An engrossing, delightful novel' Financial Times

GABRIELLE ZEVIN's internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed books include the novel The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and the prizewinning children's book, Elsewhere. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is being developed into a feature film by Temple Hill and Paramount Studios, and production for the movie version of A.J. Fikry, for which Zevin wrote the adaptation, has recently finished. Zevin was born in New York and is the daughter of a Korean mother and a Jewish-American father, who both spent their careers working in computers. Zevin is a screenwriter, an occasional critic and a graduate of Harvard University. She currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Stardew Valley.

This BLEW me away -- I've never read anything like it -- PANDORA SYKES, Instagram Anyone who reads Tomorrow can't stop talking about it. The story of Sam and Sadie and the worlds they create is something truly special * Stylist, *Christmas Gift Guide 2022* * Love, loss, plus '90s pop culture make this the perfect high/low mash-up * Grazia * Despite having an engrossing plot, the book reminds you that plot is never really the point of a great novel, and this is a great novel -- Erica Wagner * Financial Times * My #1 book to recommend -- EMMA STRAUB, New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here A beautifully wrought saga of human connection and the creative process, of love and all of its complicated levels. A gem of a novel, intimate yet sweeping, modern yet timeless. Bits of this book lingered in my head the way ghosts of Tetris pieces continue to fall in your mind's eye after playing -- ERIN MORGENSTERN When was the last time I read a book that surrounded me like this? . . . I'm blown away -- KATIE CLAPHAM, Storytellers Inc I love it so much. So so much -- MELINDA SALISBURY, author of The Sin Eater's Daughter You'll be sobbing behind your Celine sunnies * Evening Standard * Utterly absorbing * Wired * I read this in one sitting - I physically couldn't put it down. It is just as wonderful as everyone says -- LOUISE O'NEILL, author of Idol An artfully balanced novel - charming but never saccharine. The world Zevin has created is textured, expansive and, just like those built by her characters, playful -- Pippa Bailey * Observer * Tremendous new novel about art, friendship and gaming . . . a literary blockbuster destined to be filed in the Great American Novel category -- Helen Brown * Independent * "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" is actually a novel about friendship . . . a creative partnership as intense as a marriage . . . draws any curious reader into the pioneering days of a vast entertainment industry too often scorned by bookworms. And with the depth and sensitivity of a fine fiction writer, Zevin argues for the abiding appeal of the flickering screen -- Ron Charles * Washington Post * A brilliant story about life's most challenging puzzles: friendship, family, love, loss. By turns funny, poignant, wistful, and occasionally devastating -- NATHAN HILL, author of THE NIX