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Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can’t understand when—or why—that changed.

Now he’s drifting:
• Crashing on sofas instead of having a home of his own
• Waiting for his stand-up career to finally catch fire
• Watching everyone around him slip seamlessly into adulthood while he still feels stuck

Lost in the wreckage of heartbreak, Andy becomes fixated on cracking the code of their breakup. If he can uncover what went wrong, maybe he can fix it. Maybe Jen will come back. But as he digs deeper, Andy realizes there’s an entire side of the story he never bothered to hear—Jen’s.

In this sharply funny, painfully relatable tale of romantic missteps and the friendships that carry us through them, Dolly Alderton delivers a love story with two endings—one for each heart involved—and proves once again why she’s one of the most compelling, clear-voiced writers of her generation.