The A to Z of You and Me

Already released in the UK, James Hannah’s debut novel has received much literary acclaim, as well as inclusion in the Guardian’s Not the Booker Longlist.

“This terrific first novel… is absolutely bloody heartrending… Hannah’s eccentric style is never mawkish and often wonderfully funny”—The Times (UK)

“An affecting debut… Hannah proves himself a worthy inheritor of the lip-trembling English tradition… Hannah’s debut is an excellent example of that genre of sophisticated and sentimental fiction in which the terrible perplexities of life are teased into pleasing fictional shape.”—The Guardian

“There’s an elegance to Hannah’s prose, and compassion in the way he handles his subject matter that’s rare to find in a debut.”—The Independent

“Spare, poignant, and with a quirky charm all of its own, it reminds us how kind people can be.”—Rachel Joyce, New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

A striking literary debut of love and mortality, The A to Z of You and Me is is the story of a man who doesn’t have much time, his love for a girl who isn’t there, and the game he plays while waiting that illuminates the devastating and beautiful turns of life. The A-Z game. For Ivo, it’s a way to pass the time, a way to avoid the pain, and a way to think about what really got him here. His hospice nurse suggested it – think of a body part for each letter, and think of memories connected to each one. And so begins the revealing of his misspent life: the terrible teenage choices, friendships made and cracked, love he’ll never get back. He remembers the girl who tried to help him, the friend who wouldn’t let her, and the sickness that chases him even now.