All Fours

The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her life

It's very funny, quite dirty, and deeply profound, with a fragile magic that comes from entering an uncensored inner world. There is the added thrill as well, of July suggesting that midlife, and menopause in particular, might be kind of . . . hot

Rage, grief, lust, sadness, selfishness; this stunning book and July's nameless heroine have it all. I cannot wait to read it all over again

A life-changer for me. I thought I was reading about middle age, then I thought I was reading about menopause, then motherhood, then sexuality, then monogamy, then marriage. And by the final page I realised I was reading about existence and death and I couldn't stop crying. Plus it's so funny and it's so horny. My favourite novel of this year

A giddy, bold, mind-blowing tour de force by one of our most important literary writers. Funny, honest, rich with the energy of the mind, All Fours will jump-start your relation to language and cause you to think anew about the nature of desire

Transcendent . . . A book that emboldens you. To read it, is to feel gloriously, unashamedly alive

One of the freshest, funniest, most urgent voices I've read in a long time . . . Authentic and willingly honest. I couldn't put the book down. What a delight

Wild and outrageous, provocative and entirely unpredictable

Essential . . . A book of vast scope, taking in men and women, the mind and the body, and society and solitude

July doesn't just tap into the zeitgeist; she helps shape it. Her prose is startlingly original yet immediately familiar, like meeting a stranger who reminds you of yourself. How did she create something so original and yet so relatable? . . . Unflinching and insistent - a defiance against erasure

July comes into her own [and] brings a new perspective . . . A menopause novel that's never boring

Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker and artist. Her debut novel, The First Bad Man , was an instant New York Times bestseller, and her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You , won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review , Harper's and the New Yorker . July lives in Los Angeles.

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