What Will Survive of Us

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An original homage to love in later life and a provocative look at infidelity, desire, and what is left when we strip away every layer An original homage to love in later life and a provocative look at infidelity, desire, and what is left when we strip away every layer Lily Redfern falls in love with Sam Quaid the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam Quaid a day or two longer to fall in love with her - but then he already has a wife. Lily is an award-winning television documentary maker. Sam is an award-winning playwright. It is to plan a TV programme that they meet, and it is while shooting the film that their affair begins. She is bolder than he imagined, he more passive. This dynamic sets the seal on their passion. They are a marvel to each other and have eyes, ears and thoughts for no one and nothing else. The outside world fades clean away. Together they seek an immortality that only a love beyond all reason can confer. But what will happen to them when familiarity, illness and age begin to take their toll What will survive Until it's poignant close, the author takes us to the edge of desire, love and betrayal in his examination of what is left of us when we strip away every layer.

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Howard Jacobson is rightly regarded as one of Britain's very greatest writers -- Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape Artist
Let's pause to consider Howard Jacobson's comic elegance and precision... Just look at the way he makes the English language dance for us -- Spectator, praise for LIVE A LITTLE
No other novelist writing in Britain could dramatise this nonagenarian love story with greater verve and tenderness -- Observer, praise for LIVE A LITTLE

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Howard Jacobson has written sixteen novels and five works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.