Come and get it

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It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie’s starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue. A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption and reckless abandon, ‘Come and Get It’ is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion and bad behaviour.

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SKU: 9781526632548 Category: Tag: Publisher/imprint : Bloomsbury
Page count : 400
Published on 30th January, 2024

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* THE UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING PHENOMENON SUCH A FUN AGE *‘I couldn’t put it down, and I didn’t want to either’ EMILY HENRY‘Razor-sharp ? Packs a huge emotional punch’ DAILY MAILA page-turning pleasure – stylish, sharp and breathtakingly smart DAISY BUCHANANEverything comes at a price. But not everything can be paid for?Millie wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. She’s slowly saving up from her job on campus, but when a visiting professor offers her an unusual opportunity to make some extra money, she jumps at the chance. Agatha is a writer, recovering from a break-up while researching attitudes towards weddings and money for her new book. She strikes gold when interviewing the girls in Millie’s dorm, but her plans take a turn when she realises that the best material is unfolding behind closed doors. As the two women form an unlikely relationship, they soon become embroiled in a world of roommate theatrics, vengeful pranks and illicit intrigue – and are forced to question just how much of themselves they are willing to trade to get what they want.Sharp, intimate and provocative, Come and Get It takes a lens to our money-obsessed society in a tension-filled story about desire, consumption and bad behaviour.‘Smart, funny and perceptive’ i‘A perfect read’ STYLIST ‘Wonderfully immersive, propulsive and beautifully paced’ PAUL HARDING ‘Quiet and intense ? A joy to read’ JESSICA GEORGE‘Witty and nuanced’ RED‘[An] incisive novel everyone will be talking about’ TOWN AND COUNTRY

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Dimensions 21.6 × 13.5 cm
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