How It Works Out

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Author: Lacroix, Myriam Of specific Gay & Lesbian interestPublished on 10 July 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 224 pages198 x 129 | 161g What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it worked out?‘A cause for celebration’ GEORGE SAUNDERS‘A stunner of a debut’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Hilarious, heart-rending, grotesque, delightful, utterly brilliant' DAISY JOHNSON‘Exhilaratingly good’ KELLY LINKWhen Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals:What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an alley?What if the only cure for Myriam’s depression was Allison’s flesh?How much darker - or sexier - would their dynamic be if one were a power-hungry CEO, and the other her lowly employee?From the fantasies of early romance to the slow encroaching of heartbreak, each reality builds to complete a brilliant and painfully funny portrait of love’s many promises and perils.WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:'Wow. I will be reading everything Myriam Lacroix puts out''Everything Everywhere All at Once for U-haul lesbians... I'm diving in again''I haven't read anything like it before... Fantastic debut' Show more