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  • Published: 4 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405965620
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $28.00

As Young As This





Tender, devastating and sharply funny, As Young as This is a beautiful depiction of the ways people shape us, the plans we make for our lives, and what it means to let go of them, from an incredible new talent.

Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men Margot has loved, liked, lusted over.

Since she was seventeen, she’s pictured them like stepping stones – each one bringing her closer to finding someone to share her life with and, eventually, father the children she’s always imagined in her future.

From her first sexual encounter, to her first love, from grown-up dilemmas to spontaneous thrills, she’s soaked up every experience available to her, discovering friendship, joy and despair. Through all of this she’s refined her search until she believes she’s arrived at ‘the ending’ to her story.

So how did she find herself here, single at thirty-four, and about to make the biggest decision of her life?

  • Published: 4 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405965620
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $28.00

Praise for As Young As This

In Margot, Roxy Dunn has created a character who encapsulates so many of the anxieties of her generation. Deceptively open-handed plotting cleverly disguises a work of philosophical force. Dunn's heroine has us judging and loving her simultaneously while leaving room for us to turn the mirror on our own reasons for choosing our partners. I smiled a lot reading As Young As This, and whatever age or gender you are I challenge you not to do the same.

Paterson Joseph

Relatable, poignant and gripping, told with great originality. Roxy Dunn is a fresh and exciting new voice in fiction ... I read it in a single day

Libby Page, author of The Lido

A young woman's life, told through the men she has dated. With glorious attention to detail and emotional fluency, Dunn charts the ways in which we are built and broken by love

Pandora Sykes

This debut novel about womanhood and expectations will be one of the most exciting of the year

The Independent, best fiction books to read in 2024

Anyone who's ever experienced the slog of modern dating will love As Young As This, an achingly relatable novel that focuses on the dreams we have for our lives, and what happens when we open ourselves up to letting them go

Harper's Bazaar, The 10 Best Novels to Read in 2024

An interesting and relatable look at our expectations versus reality

Stylist, 10 of the best debut novels of 2024 by women

Engrossing, heartfelt and wise

Eurostar Magazine

Dunn's debut novel, which combines lyrical writing with a very relatable main character, marks her out as a rising star

Good Housekeeping

I love love loved As Young as This ... I wanted to live inside it, wallowing in that gorgeous prose. And that ending! Well, I was not prepared.

Laura Pearson, author of I Wanted You to Know

This will really speak to you if you've ever had to let go of what you thought your life would look like, readjust, and let a new life take hold

The Sunday Times Style

Poignant

Cosmopolitan, Best New Books to Read in April

This buzzy debut is a beautiful look at how love shapes us

inews, Best New Books to Read in April 2024

Roxy Dunn is a brilliant storyteller ... A future cult classic

The Lady

A vividly sketched, intense evocation of how we're shaped by those we know - one for Dolly Alderton fans

The Times

Beautifully written ... The second person narration lends an authenticity to Margot's nostalgic reminiscences and honest look back at her past ... It's brilliant on comparisons, self-sabotage, social expectations, fear and settling. Wonderful

Daily Mail

Astounding emotional fluency

Rae Duke

Dunn’s writing perfectly captures the exciting beginnings and achingly sad ends of relationships. You won’t be able to put it down.

Independent, Best new books for summer
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