The UK & Commonwealth edition of Meet Me in Another Life has now joined the North American edition out in the big wide world:
If you’re in the UK and would like a physical edition of the book, you currently have a few choices (note the first two are limited editions and may sell out at some point):
- The excellently goth Waterstones signed exclusive edition, with black sprayed edges
- The Goldsboro Books signed limited edition, with blue sprayed edges – this one won’t be available until 16th July, which is when I will physically go to the London branch to sign them
- The standard UK hardback edition, available from all the usual places. This is the only edition I currently have a copy of myself – I can reassure you that, despite the lack of sprayed edges, it is also very pretty. Another bonus of this one is that no one has let me deface the title page with my scrawl.
There is also the ebook and the audiobook which, like the universe, have no edges, sprayed or otherwise. They do have all the same words as the physical edition. In the case of the audiobook, those words are gorgeously narrated by the incomparable Kristin Atherton.
As I did for the US release, I thought I’d use this post to round up a few things that have meant a lot to me over the past few weeks:
- If a time traveller had come up to me and Hannah Little ten years ago, when we were drinking wine in her student bedsit on Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, and said “You know in ten years’ time, one of you will be a senior lecturer/science communicator and will be asking the other one incisive interview questions about their debut novel on one of the Guardian’s favourite podcasts?” We would probably have said “What’s a podcast?” (That’s not strictly true. Hannah definitely knew what a podcast was.) Anyway, it happened, and it was awesome, and here’s the episode of the Cosmic Shed to prove it. Listen if you fancy hearing us chat about the role of common ground in time loop narratives, genetics versus environment in children’s language development, and whether learning Greek changes the way you think about love.
- I did my first author event! Organised by The Reading Agency and hosted by Bristol Libraries, I got to be part of a panel of 2021 debut authors along with Carole Johnstone and Christina Sweeney-Baird. It was so much fun to chat about everything from our writing processes to how we got started (for me, writing extremely derivative stories about foxes inspired by The Animals of Farthing Wood). If you missed it, you can watch the replay here.
- I wrote a blog post for Waterstones about my top five books that break the rules of time, and the insights they offer into human selfhood and relationships. As a kid who grew up loving Waterstones and sort of wanting to live there, getting to write for their blog as well as having a special edition with them has broken my brain a bit. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it.
Since the book has been out in North America for a little while now, I’ve been dipping into reviews and reactions every so often when I feel strong enough! My overall impression is that it’s not a book that works for everyone, but the people it does work for really seem to love it. And honestly, I don’t think I could ask for more than that.
If you’ve picked it up already, thank you. If you’re thinking of picking it up, I really hope you enjoy it.