The hotly-anticipated third novel from the author of Sunburn, which sold over 100,000 copies and was shortlisted for the Nero Book Award, the British Book Awards and the Polari Prize.

WHAT WE COME BACK TO
by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Publisher TK
(via Northbank Talent Management)

Aly and Meadhbh meet at a party that changes the course of their lives. Meadhbh has just moved to London from small-town Ireland with her best friend Saoirse, and Aly has been living in a penthouse paid for her by parents while she completes yet another degree. They are worlds apart, yet they cannot take their eyes off each other, and they fall instantly and madly in love.

We follow them from London in 2000 to Kilcoom in 2006, navigating obsessions, affairs and estrangements but always coming back to each other. Told through their alternating perspectives, this tender and addictive novel is for fans of Coco Mellor’s Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Nicola Dinan’s Bellies.

Chloe Michelle Howarth was born in July 1996. She grew up in the West Cork countryside, which has served as an inspiration for her writing. She attended university at IADT in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, where she studied English, Media and Cultural Studies. Chloe currently lives in Brighton. Her debut novel, Sunburn, was shortlisted for the 2024 Polari First Book Prize, the 2024 Book of the Year: Discover Award at the British Book Awards and the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction and longlisted for the 2024 Diverse Book Awards.