{"product_id":"it-will-come-back-to-you-9780349020594","title":"It Will Come Back to You : from the bestselling author of THE FRIEND - 'Reading her work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend' (LA Times)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, LA TIMES AND BOSTON GLOBE - AND ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS FOR 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Wryly funny and slyly provocative' DAILY MAIL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Sigrid Nunez creates whole lives in fewer than 20 pages' JOHN SELF, THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' ANNE ENRIGHT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt Will Come Back to You takes in thirteen stories - never before collected together - from a career spanning three decades, which has seen Nunez become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices. Moving from an inappropriate teenage crush to a therapist's second chance at love, in this collection Nunez maintains her irrepressible humour, bite, and insight, while exploring the philosophical questions we have come to expect from her writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Among the most interesting writers of our generation' INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It Will Come Back to You should make you want to imbibe every word Nunez has ever written' TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A strange, perceptive and unsettling look at the lives of ordinary people' FINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of American fiction's most crisp and realized voices. Like the food in a good restaurant, her prose is excellent but unfussy' NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Nunez injects these stories with a deep tenderness and a wry sense of humor, all the while challenging our conceptions of what it means to live an ordinary life' HARPERS BAZAAR , 'Best Summer Books 2026'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Nunez [has] a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice' JENNY MUSTARD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the great writers of our time . . . Reading [Nunez's] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend' LOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The stories show [Nunez's] gift for turning apparently ordinary lives into something stranger, funnier and more searching than they first appear' iPAPER, ' The best new books to read in July 2026'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Long live Sigrid Nunez' LAURA MARLING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Nunez [has] a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice' JENNY MUSTARD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the great writers of our time . . . Reading [Nunez's] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend' LOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A treat' OPRAH DAILY , 'Best Books of the Summer 2026'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There are two kinds of people in the world, people who haven't read Sigrid Nunez, and people who love Sigrid Nunez' CLAIRE KOHDA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Wonderful . . . Her uncertain protagonists in an uncertain world are the perfect literary creations: vexed in their own lives but delightful to encounter' BIDISHA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Sigrid Nunez\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 14 Jul 2026 by Little, Brown Book Group.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sigrid Nunez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320863039866,"sku":"9780349020594","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9780349020594.jpg?v=1790664500","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/it-will-come-back-to-you-9780349020594","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}