Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024*** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES 'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic' ALICE SLATER 'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA ARMFIELD 'Lovable and joyful' NEW YORK TIMES A BROTHER. A SISTER. A LOT OF EMOTION IN ONE APARTMENT. This is the story of Greta and Valdin: twenty-something brother and sister with a near-unpronounceable surname, a sprawling Maori-Russian-Catalonian family and questionable taste in partners. While Valdin can’t seem to get over his ex-boyfriend who fled the country, Greta has an unrequited crush on fellow English tutor Holly, who uses her for admin support. But all hope is not lost for these lovelorn siblings. Through the misadventures and mess of modern adulthood, at least they still have each other — unless drama gets in the way. From bad dates to family feuds and embarrassing karaoke nights, this acclaimed bestseller from New Zealand is a fresh, heartwarming and hilarious story about the trials and tribulations of love in its many forms.
Greta & Valdin is hilarious, touching and hotly sublimeThe kind of novel that simultaneously makes me wish I were funnier and absolves me from the need to try - I'll never be as funny as Rebecca K Reilly (and that's ok) -- Julia Armfield
GRETA AND VALDIN feels somehow totally new and beautifully familiar at the same time, like the kind of book you've been longing to read your whole life. Part comedy of manners, part family epic and all contained within a compulsive, charming clutch of pages we couldn't put down. Both ruthless and hilarious, offering hope and a wink for queer romantics everywhere -- Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta, authors of THE VIEW WAS EXHAUSTING
An absolute delight ... a gloriously picaresque celebration of messy, complicated love -- Emma Hughes
I laughed, I cried, I cheered with Greta and Valdin. This is a novel that tastes like life -- Margaux Vialleron
Heartwarmingly tender and raucously funny, with the sophistication of a Shakespearean comedy, Greta & Valdin is replete with swoonworthy queer romance, hilariously eccentric sibling hijinks and mature reckoning with the complexities of family heritage. A deliciously perfectly bittersweet delight -- Leon Craig
GRETA AND VALDIN feels somehow totally new and beautifully familiar at the same time, like the kind of book you've been longing to read your whole life. Part comedy of manners, part family epic and all contained within a compulsive, charming clutch of pages we couldn't put down. Both ruthless and hilarious, offering hope and a wink for queer romantics everywhere -- Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta, authors of THE VIEW WAS EXHAUSTING
An absolute delight ... a gloriously picaresque celebration of messy, complicated love -- Emma Hughes
I laughed, I cried, I cheered with Greta and Valdin. This is a novel that tastes like life -- Margaux Vialleron
Heartwarmingly tender and raucously funny, with the sophistication of a Shakespearean comedy, Greta & Valdin is replete with swoonworthy queer romance, hilariously eccentric sibling hijinks and mature reckoning with the complexities of family heritage. A deliciously perfectly bittersweet delight -- Leon Craig
Rebecca K Reilly (Ngaati Hine, Ngaati Rehua Ngaatiwai ki Aotea) is a Maaori novelist from Waitaakere, New Zealand. She has a BA (hons) in German and European studies from the University of Auckland and an MA from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, where she won the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for 2019.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781804946077 |
| ISBN 10 | 1804946079 |
| Title | Greta and Valdin |
| Author | Rebecca K Reilly |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2024-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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