THE GETAWAY
*currently querying*
Complete at 92,000 words, THE GETAWAY is Lily King’s WRITERS & LOVERS meets EMILY IN PARIS in a story for hopeless romantics about unraveling grief and burgeoning freedom.
The night of her dad’s funeral, Josie drinks a bottle of wine and goes through his studio that was once his office. She finds a journal from the summer he was twenty-three, when he spent three months in France.
Fist-fighting her grief and desperate to be closer to him but far away from home, she sacrifices her savings to relive his trip. The only way she knows how to get through her devastation is to plan her way through it.
Over the course of six weeks, Josie befriends the barista at the cafe next door, cries in sunlit monasteries, receives guidance from a restaurant owner, hangs herself over garden ledges, babbles to a Franciscan monk, falls into doomed love with a blond Brit, and learns to loosen her grip.
THE GETAWAY has the tenderness and wit of Lily King’s WRITER’S & LOVERS, digs into the lush interiority of a young woman similarly to the works of EMILY HENRY, and features the kind of sensual longing that’s laced through Sally Rooney’s NORMAL PEOPLE.
A love letter to eldest daughters everywhere, Natalie's debut novel was penned after a trip to Nice (that was far less romantic) and a personal loss.
