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A Novel
Random House Publishing Group
July 2025
On Sale: July 8, 2025
304 pages
ISBN: 059387420X
EAN: 9780593874202
Kindle: B0DJQBJQ17
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction | Literature and Fiction Literary | Coming of Age
Sometimes the things you love most are the very things that can tear you apart.
Charlie is twenty-three, single and the new publicity assistant at London’s preeminent independent book publishing house. Richard Aveling is fifty-six, married and the author who has defined his generation.
Charlie has long idolized the charming, illustrious writer, who also represents a link to her late mother who loved his work. But as they embark on an illicit and all-consuming affair, Charlie is forced to hide the relationship from everyone she cares about.
Too soon, she can’t imagine her life without Richard, and too late, she understands that losing him will unravel more than just their relationship—it might also unravel her.
Tender and poignant, Bitter Sweet is an intimate exploration of power, of vulnerability, of what it means to love another person and what it means to love yourself.
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