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anti-romance
Author_Eliza Moss
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coming of age stories
contemporary fiction
dark comedy
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feminism
friendship
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literary fiction
london
love story
narcissism
obsession
psychological
relationships
toxic love
toxic relationships
unconventional love
womanhood
women writers
women's fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781250355072
- Weight: 346g
- Dimensions: 148 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would have beaten by now. She wants to be a writer but can’t finish a first draft; she romanticizes her childhood but won’t speak to her mother; she has never been in a serious relationship but yearns to be one half of a couple that DIYs together on weekends.
Enter: enigmatic writer. Enola falls in love and starts to dream about their perfect future: the wedding, the book deals, the house in Stoke Newington. But the reality is far from perfect. He’s distant. But she’s a Cool Girl, she doesn’t need to hear from him every day. He hangs out with his ex. But she’s a Cool Girl, she’s not insecure. Is she? He has dark moods. But he’s a creative, that’s part of his “process.” Her best friend begs her to end it, but Enola can’t. She’s a Cool Girl.
She might feel like she’s going crazy at times, but she wants him. She needs him. She would die without him...That’s what love is, isn’t it? Over the next twenty-four hours (and two years), everything that Enola thinks she knows is about to unravel, and she has to think again about how she sees love, family, friendship, and - most importantly - herself.
With notes of Fleabag and I May Destroy You but with the sparseness and emotional accuracy of writers like Lily King, What It’s Like in Words is a close examination of what it means to experience the intense emotional uncertainty of first love.
Eliza Moss is the pseudonym for Sarah Moss, a London-based actor, and singer. She double majored at the University of Manchester, gaining a first class degree in English literature, and studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. In 2021 she completed the Curtis Brown Creative three-month novel-writing course. What It's Like in Words is her first novel.
