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We Go Way Back

The most anticipated, heartbreaking love story of 2027

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We Go Way Back

By: Niamh Connolly
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Frances has imagined this wedding a million times. But in no version was she alone in her hotel room, trying not to cry.

In every version, she was supposed to be the one marrying Callum Sutton.

So how did they end up here?

Interwoven with the wedding weekend is the story of a friendship forever on the brink of being something more. From the early days of homemade mixtapes and drunken almost-kisses, through birthdays, weddings, life-upending bereavements, to the final heartbreak that led them here.

To Callum, marrying someone else.

As Frances unpacks her suitcase, there's a knock at the hotel door. Callum, in the flesh, for the first time in over three years. And the answer to 'will they, won't they?' suddenly becomes a lot less certain.

We Go Way Back is an epic will-they-won't-they love story. But it's also a novel about friendship, forgiveness, and figuring out who you want to be. It's perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton, Coco Mellors and Caroline O'Donoghue, but, really, it's for anyone who loves a good read-in-one-sitting, bus-stop-missing, late-into-the-night love story. This one has it all: it's funny and tender and sexy and moving.©2027 Niamh Connolly (P)2027 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Contemporary Friendship Genre Fiction
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Critic reviews

A beautifully woven epic love story, filled with characters who leap off the page and into your heart, We Go Way Back is a sparkling debut that will make you laugh and cry and stay up way too late turning the pages (Annabel Monaghan)
We Go Way Back brims with yearning and nostalgia as two soulmates try to reconcile twenty years of shared history in three days . . . before one marries somebody else. The tension between Frances and Callum crackles off the page - I couldn't put this down (Emma Brodie)
An electric love story for anyone who has ever convinced themselves that they were over it, who believes that timing is everything (until it's terrible), or who wants to laugh, ache and be reminded of how big, strange and generous life can be. Funny, tender, true. Niamh Connolly writes the way life feels (Cecilia Rabess)
Niamh Connolly's bighearted We Go Way Back illuminates the lives of two kindred souls destined to be together. Or are they? I couldn't stop turning the pages of this tender will-they-won't-they tale until I found out (Heather Aimee O'Neill)
I devoured this novel. With grace, precision, and immense emotional intelligence, Connolly captures the exquisite ache of longing. Beautifully written and utterly absorbing (Loretta Rothschild)
We Go Way Back is a love story that is deeply sexy and sad and funny and unafraid of its characters' pain. Achingly honest, deft in its balance of bluntness and sincerity, it made me feel less alone and also turned me on . . . What more could one ask for, really? (Eva Victor)
I could write a book about this book, but instead I'll just say: read it, please - everything they told you about it is right, you really will struggle to put it down (Ore Agbaje-Williams)
Honestly the best romance I've read for years. I fell in love with the characters and ached with loss when it ended (Josie Lloyd)
Funny, heart-wrenching and completely divine. My favourite kind of love story (Hannah Beer)
A heartfelt love story about the long tail of grief and trauma. I stayed up half the night reading it (Niamh Hargan)
Prepare to fall in love with Callum and Frances. This is an extraordinarily special book - so nostalgic, moving, funny, and beautifully written (Louise O’Neill)
If you could encapsulate yearning into a single novel it would be this one. The love, care and tenderness in We Go Way Back is addictive and I quickly became obsessed with the rich history and will-they-won't-they dynamic between Frances and Callum. Connolly writes their relationship so beautifully, especially the smaller intricacies between them (their inside jokes, their shared language etc) that really brings to life their love story. Perhaps THE romance of 2027! (Shahed Ezaydi)
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