The funny, propulsive new novel about hating your friends, hating what they bring out in you, hating how you pander to them, the perfect satirical summer read for fans of Emma Cline, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Ottessa Moshfegh. A LitHub most anticipated book of 2025‘Exceptionally funny and entertaining’ Katy Hessel, bestselling author of The Story of Art Without Men‘A gorgeous book on being a hater, and I inhaled this in one sitting’ StylistYears after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself once more at their dinner table for a single, hideous evening. It’s the day after the funeral of their mutual friend, a failed actress and – Eugene and Nicole, an artist-curator couple – are hosting a dinner party. If the narrator.