They're Going to Love You: A captivating drama of betrayal and creative ambition

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'A luminous chronicle of betrayal, sacrifice and creative ambition' The Observer Lush and enjoyable a glossy, fast-paced family drama The Times 'My idea of a perfect book' Jami Attenberg By the books close, readers will be clamouring for an extra curtain call Guardian Once a year, ballet-obsessed Carlisle Martin spends a few precious weeks with her father Robert and his partner James at their enchanted apartment in Greenwich Village. Time spent with them is impossibly glamorous, filled with art, dance, beauty, books, and grown-ups who take her seriously as they battle the AIDs crisis and Then, one summer, a devastating betrayal sees her exiled from their world. Now in her 40s, Carlisle has forged a successful career as a choreographer, and hasnt seen Robert or James in nearly twenty years, when James calls to summon her to her dying fathers bedside They're Going to Love You, with its masterfully revealed secret at its heart, asks what it takes to be an artist, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love. In this finger-trap puzzle of a plot, the pull of the past meets the pressures of the present New York Times

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Howrey deftly jumps through decades and lives to write a taut, moving evocation of the love and hurt contained within families and the difficulty of forgiveness. * Mail on Sunday *
Filled with painful and astute self-reflections Howrey is also often very funny, a deeply felt (late) coming-of-age tale about purpose and love * The i Paper *
Howreys prose invites readers to feel the emotion of each dance, beautifully translating physical and visual art onto the page. [Her] incisive character studies create a heart-wrenching story of love and loss. * Booklist *
A poignant family story of alienation, regret, and desire. Howrey expertly builds tension, leading the reader to feel alongside Carlisle both the draw of ballet and her anxiety about her reunion with her father. Its a breathtaking performance. * Publishers Weekly *
Theyre Going to Love You is a devastating and revealing look behind the scenes at the true cost of artcreating it, quitting it, making a life of it. Howrey's moving, taut prose has captured the sacredness and profanity of ballet, family, and of life itself. * Chloe Angyal, author of Turning Pointe *
Howrey takes the purity of expression in dance and imbues it with all the messy subtleties of great writing to create something new and exquisite. An elegant and deeply affecting tale. * Steven Rowley, author of The Guncle *
Howrey goes back and forth between Carlisles present and her pastlanding, like a flawless jet, on the side of pitch-perfect poignancy. Howrey, a former dancer who joined the Joffrey Ballet when she was just a teenager, writes as movingly about the world of dance as any living author. Even better is her incisive and effortless writing about relationshipsbetween parent and child, between queer loversin all their complex mess and beauty. Agony is ordinary, thinks Carlislethis novel is anything but. * Kirkus *
Swift and sinewy and intenselike the ballet dancers who populate it. Its about vocation, longing, and complicated family love, and its guaranteed to make you weep. * Maile Meloy *
A gripping, deftly constructed drama. * The Bookseller *
In this finger-trap puzzle of a plot, the pull of the past meets the pressures of the present * New York Times *
Theyre Going to Love You is my idea of a perfect book. It is about art, life, death, love, and family and it is beautifully and sharply written. I cried several times while reading it, and was sorry to let it go when I was done. I cannot recommend it enough. * Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins *
A stirring coming-of-age tale. Howreys writing is precise and eloquent, like finely tuned ballet, but above all, this soul-stirring novel is about love, loyalty and ones lifelong relationship to art. * The Seattle Times *
Lush and enjoyable a glossy, fast-paced family drama * The Times *
Rooted in authenticity, nuance, and honesty. By addressing issues like lack of recognition and pay for choreographers, the lack of female choreographers in ballet, and ballets body biases, Howrey not only weaves a poignant story, she makes a statement about the way things are and the ways things need to change. * Fjord Review *
Reading this potent novel, I kept thinking of the Elvis Costello quote: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. In much the same way, dramatizing the dance world is no easy feat, and Meg Howrey has stuck the landing. Theyre Going to Love You is a portrait of passion and beauty at its most electric and unflinching. Youre going to love this book. * Lauren Mechling, author of How Could She *
a deeply beautiful book. A lot of writers dream of achieving something like this novel, where art and life and love all seem to be addressed in a way we havent read before. Writing about dance and making it feel present, alive, and important must be among the trickiest of writerly skills! Meg Howrey choreographs fragile wisdom, passing time, parents and children and lovers and regrets and ambition elegantly and movingly. * Arthur Phillips, author of The Tragedy of Arthur *
A luminous chronicle of betrayal, sacrifice and creative ambition * The Observer *
Muscular and graceful in equal measure, Theyre Going to Love You, like the best fiction, contains everything on every pagea new story, constantly surprising, that in its specificity touches the universal line by line. Howreys writing is remarkable, and this novel is a soaring achievement and a total success. * Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing *
As elegant, refined and layered as the best of ballets, this novel is a luminous, immersive reading experience. I was fully transported into a world of beauty, rigour, aesthetic and personal challenges. Compelling and captivating, I was unable to put it down. * Lisa Harding, author of Bright Burning Things *
I adored Theyre Going to Love You so much that a part of me is convinced that Meg Howrey wrote it for me, specifically. This is such a gorgeous novel about being an artist in the modern world, the sacrifices we make and the people we hurt. When I hit the last page, I didnt want to let these characters goI adored every word. * Lindsay Lynch, Parnassus Books *
'Howrey is a stylish writer, sometimes funny and sometimes touching... Lose yourself in the dance' * The Times *
By the books close, readers will be clamouring for an extra curtain call * Guardian *

Author Bio

Meg Howrey is the author of the novels THE WANDERERS, THE CRANES DANCE, and BLIND SIGHT. Her non-fiction has appeared in Vogue and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Meg was a professional dancer who performed with the Joffrey Ballet and City Ballet of Los Angeles, among others. She made her theatrical debut in James Lapine's TWELVE DREAMS at Lincoln Center, and received the 2001 Ovation Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway National Tour of CONTACT. She currently lives in Los Angeles.