It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez

One of the Guardian‘s most anticipated books for 2026, the first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend

‘Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don’t look back’ ANNE ENRIGHT

‘Among the most interesting writers of our generation’ INDEPENDENT

‘Nunez gracefully leaps from big emotions, including grief, to erudite literary digressions or biting wit’ WALL STREET JOURNAL

‘One of my favourite authors’ NATALIE PORTMAN

It Will Come Back to You takes in thirteen stories – never before collected together – from a career spanning three decades, which has seen Nunez become one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive voices. Moving from an inappropriate teenage crush to a therapist’s second chance at love, in this collection Nunez maintains her irrepressible humour, bite, and insight, while exploring the philosophical questions we have come to expect from her writing.

‘What’s consistent across Nunez’s books is their searching tone about the biggest of life’s questions’ WASHINGTON POST

‘Long live Sigrid Nunez’ LAURA MARLING

‘I am committed, until one of us dies, to Nunez’s novels. They are short, wise, provocative, funny’ DWIGHT GARNER, NEW YORK TIMES

The new book from the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez: a collection of stories that take us from an inappropriate teenage crush to a therapist’s second chance at love, all with Nunez’s signature combination of wit, intelligence and compassion.

About the Author: Sigrid Nunez is the New York Times bestselling author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and of seven other novels, including Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, What Are You Going Through and The Vulnerables. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her books have been translated into over forty languages and two of her books have recently been made into films: What Are You Going Through was the basis for Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Next Door (starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore) and The Friend has been made into a film starring Naomi Watts.

14 Jul 2026
 

It Will Come Back to You: from the bestselling author of THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez ISBN 9780349020600