How to Be Somebody Else

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Exquisitely written, sublimely fraught and erotically charged, How to Be Somebody Else is a novel about abandoning everything you have to discover what you really want A person would have to be crazy to leave New York, the whole city's thinking New York, 2015, a Monday in spring. Dylan, about to turn thirty-eight, walks out of a successful career in advertising, sublets her apartment and agrees to housesit for Anna, an artist she has never met. She doesn't mention these life changes to her friends, her parents back in England or to Matt, her boyfriend living on the West Coast. In Anna's loft Dylan has time to think, space to write and a chance to try on a new kind of life. When her neighbour Kate invites her to a party and introduces her to Gabe, Dylan tries on a new kind of romance. Gabe happens to be married to Kate but, according to Gabe, 'it's not a thing'. The more time Dylan spends with Gabe, the more she begins to believe it. As spring turns to summer Dylan's experiments in living test her friendships, loyalties and the boundaries of herself, until an unexpected encounter between the two couples forces her to confront her future. Exquisitely written, sublimely fraught and erotically charged, How to Be Somebody Else is a novel about abandoning everything you have to discover what you really want.

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Miranda Pountney was born in North London. She read English Literature at Oxford University before embarking on a career in advertising - first in London, then in New York. In 2018 she graduated from the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA, with distinction. How to Be Somebody Else is her debut novel. It was pre-empted on a partial by Jonathan Cape.