Come and get it
£16.99
It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie’s starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue. A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption and reckless abandon, ‘Come and Get It’ is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion and bad behaviour.
* THE UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING PHENOMENON SUCH A FUN AGE *‘I couldn’t put it down, and I didn’t want to either’ EMILY HENRY‘A page-turning pleasure – stylish, sharp and breathtakingly smart‘ DAISY BUCHANANEverything comes at a price. But not everything can be paid for?Millie wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. She’s slowly saving up from her job on campus, but when a visiting professor offers her an unusual opportunity to make some extra money, she jumps at the chance. Agatha is a writer, recovering from a break-up while researching attitudes towards weddings and money for her new book. She strikes gold when interviewing the girls in Millie’s dorm, but her plans take a turn when she realises that the best material is unfolding behind closed doors. As the two women form an unlikely relationship, they soon become embroiled in a world of roommate theatrics, vengeful pranks and illicit intrigue – and are forced to question just how much of themselves they are willing to trade to get what they want.Sharp, intimate and provocative, Come and Get It takes a lens to our money-obsessed society in a tension-filled story about desire, consumption and bad behaviour.PRAISE FOR KILEY REID AND SUCH A FUN AGE‘The book of the year’ Independent‘A new literary star’ The Times‘Essential. This year’s hit debut’ Guardian‘A biting tale of race and class’ Sunday Times‘I couldn’t put this down’ Jojo Moyes‘A startling, razor-sharp debut … Wildly fun and breathtakingly wise’ Taylor Jenkins-Reid‘A gripping page-turner with serious things to say about racism, class, gender, parenting and privilege’ Madeline Miller