Emily Gould's dazzling novel traces, with wit and honesty, the evolution of a friendship between two New Yorkers as they confront their thirties.

'A dazzling debut' Glamour

Bev and Amy are best friends but, at thirty, they have reached a crossroads. Bev is stuck in circumstances that would barely have passed muster in her twenties: temping, living in a shared house, drowning in debt. Amy is a fiercely charismatic media darling still riding the tailwinds of early success, but reality is catching up with her. And now Bev is unexpectedly pregnant. As the two friends are dragged into genuine adulthood, they are forced to contemplate the possibility that growing up might mean growing apart.

'Emily Gould recreates with wit and insight the New York I know: a place full of fame and money that's not yours, where friends become family, and life's big questions stay unanswered for a long time' Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding

'Funny and illuminating . . . A clever, sharp novel about proper growing up' Red

'Provides . . . enlightening insights into what it is to be female and coming of age in 21st-century New York, but there's the warm glow of real friendship too' Daily Mail

'A sharp study of female friendship, that treacherous terrain where envy and deep fondness often go hand in hand' Observer

And the Heart Says Whatever comes by its anger and melancholy honestly, and it makes sense of much that is puzzling about our cultural moment