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  • Published: 28 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405955188
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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People in Love




The highly anticipated new novel from author of word-of-mouth hit Talking at Night: a love triangle story you'll never forget.

One bright blue day in February, Nora’s partner Robin proposes unexpectedly. They’d always agreed that they didn’t need a wedding. But after a happy decade together, Nora says yes. Why wouldn’t she?

The answer lands on the night of their engagement party, when Bren turns up.

Growing up, Bren and Nora were the sort of best friends who everyone swore would end up together. But when heartbreak struck, Bren left, Nora stayed, and the longing between them remained unspoken.

Now, their spark reignites, leading Nora to remember feelings she’s spent twelve years trying to forget . . .

  • Published: 28 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405955188
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
Categories:

About the author

Claire Daverley

Claire Daverley was born in 1991 and has been writing stories ever since she was six years old, inspired by art and film and her many trips to the library. After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from The University of Oxford, she began a career in publishing, writing about books by day but penning her own by night, on trains, and in the light of the early mornings. She has spent most of her life in Hertfordshire, but now lives in Scotland with her husband and spaniel.

Her debut novel, Talking at Night, has sold in twenty-one languages to date.

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Praise for People in Love

Claire Daverley’s love stories are heartfelt, full of warmth, and show the everyday intimacies that make a life.

Florence Knapp, bestselling author of THE NAMES

PEOPLE IN LOVE is magnificent. Claire Daverley is uniquely alert to the texture of a life, both internal and external, and renders it in such detail that one has the pleasure of fully inhabiting her characters. Not only their days—their living rooms and kitchens—but also their families, their memories, and their hearts. Daverley writes with wisdom, kindness, and humour about the glory and pain of love in all its forms. I am particularly admiring of the depth and complexity of her characters and of the beauty she finds in their humanity.

EMMA KNIGHT, author of THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE COMMON OCTOPUS

People in Love is pure heartache, pure poetry, pure, brilliant moonbeam Claire Daverley. The revelations in this novel glow like opals: fiery, clear, milky, the way life is. I couldn't wait to see what would happen, even though I never wanted it to end.

CATHERINE NEWMAN, NYT bestselling author of SANDWICH

Tender, wise, deeply satisfying and so beautifully written – I adored this gorgeous, grown-up love story

Daisy Buchanan
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