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  • Published: 16 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781787637139
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $34.99

Friends You Haven't Met Yet




The breakout feel-good novel from the bestselling author of The Authenticity Project

When you’re lonely, a good book can feel like a friend. But what if it could connect you with someone in real life?

When bookshop owner Jude sees how a love of the same book can bring people together, she starts using her shop to help people find connection through a Table of Possibilities. Soon, her book-matchmaking has changed the lives of everyone around her, from young Harper trying to find love to the elderly ladies who frequent her cafe.

And before long, perhaps Jude's own life will be changed in unexpected ways, too...

  • Published: 16 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781787637139
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising, before becoming a full-time writer. Clare’s dark but hilarious memoir, The Sober Diaries, has helped thousands of people around the world to quit drinking. The Authenticity Project, Clare’s debut novel, was a BBC Rado 2 Bookclub pick, a New York Times bestseller, the winner of the RNA debut novel award, and a Babelio award. It has been translated into 29 languages. Friends You Haven’t Met Yet is her fourth novel. Clare lives in Fulham, London, with her husband, three children and two border terriers.

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A proper good pick-me-up of a book

Ruth Jones

A celebration of life at every age and stage

Jennie Godfrey

Warm, witty perfection

Good Housekeeping

Breezily entertaining

The Times

Uplifting and heart-warming

Libby Page

Characters that spring to life off the page

The Independent

Witty, warm and wise, this is a gorgeous book about community and the ways that people – and books – can enrich our lives.

Jo Leevers

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