Get ready for this decades-spanning love story
BY NIC CROSARA, IMAGE BY ALEX KROOK
Attention all queer bookworms, we have exciting news! Laura Kay, the iconic queer author behind books such as The Split and Wild Things, will be releasing another tome for us to fall in love with in 2027. And by the looks of it, it might just be her best one yet.
Titled The Point Of It All, the book has already garnered praise from Clea DuVall, who said: “I’ve never read a book that captures the joy, agony and complexity of true love as honestly as The Point Of It All does. It absolutely knocked me out.” It has also received a significant six-figure US deal with Simon & Schuster’s Carina Guiterman.
And the excitement doesn’t stop there. Here in the UK, the new trailblazing queer publishing house, Pansy, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada). Rights were acquired by founders (and husbands) Matt Cain and Harry Glasstone from Emma Finn at C&W. It’s expected to be published as a lead title on 11 March 2027.
The Point Of It All is described as an unforgettable, decades-spanning love story about timing, friendship and soulmates. Readers will follow Ros and Holland from their teens through the trials and tribulations of adulthood.
The synopsis reads: “When Ros and Holland meet as teenagers, Ros is bookish, desperately trying to avoid the scourge of 90s crop tops, and having big feelings about her first kiss with a girl at school, while Holland is making out with dubious boys in even more dubious bars and idly dreaming of life as a touring musician.
Their connection is immediate. It’s electric. It’s life-changing for them both.
Over the decades that follow, Ros and Holland are inseparable, even when they’re separated by several thousand miles of ocean. They’re best friends. They’re so much more than that. They’re each other’s favourite person. But do they want the same things? And even if they do, will they ever get out of their own way long enough to see it?”
This will definitely be one for DIVA readers’ to-be-read lists, and you’ll all want to pre-order this when you are able to.
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