Slow Dance

Coming in 2024 from Rainbow Rowell, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park, a novel of love and true friendship

''SEXY, SWEET, WISE AND NOSTALGIC - JANE AUSTEN''S PERSUASION FOR OUR TIMES' GABRIELLE ZEVIN

'A GORGEOUS book . . . a beautiful, believable love story between two slightly broken people. So SWEET, but never sentimental. I YEARNED for them to be happy and I miss it now it''s over' MARIAN KEYES

''Deeply human, profoundly romantic. Rowell will break your heart and you'll thank her for it'' LEIGH BARDUGO

Everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together - everybody but Shiloh and Cary.

Slow Dance follows these star-crossed best friends from their inseparable teen years on the wrong side of the tracks to their far-flung adulthoods - through her marriage and motherhood and his time in the Navy - as they try to work out what they're actually supposed to be to each other.

Told with Rowell's trademark sensitivity and abundant wit, Slow Dance is a big, beaming power ballad of a novel about a love so true, it refuses to be forgotten.

Who can deny the absolute, dizzy pleasure of loving a novel so much . . . I loved every page of Slow Dance, a book that is romantic to its core, and as funny and smart as its wonderful characters'' EMMA STRAUB ''A will-they, won''t-they second chance romance for the ages, this one is poised to be one of summer''s breakout hits'' PEOPLE

'A powerful and poignant tale of first love . . . Rich, real, and emotionally raw, this satisfying contemporary is sure to impress' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Praise for Rainbow Rowell

''Rowell is talented enough to be uncategorizable'' New York Times

''Cracking, laugh-out-loud dialogue, characters that feel painfully real'' Jodi Picoult

''Reminded me not just what it''s like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it''s like to be young and in love with a book'' John Green