Alone with You in the Ether

The No. 1 International Bestselling author of The Atlas Six brings us a love story like no other. This is a glimpse into what it means to be unwell, and how to love as if you’re not broken. A Heat Book of the Week. In a Chicago art gallery, two people meet by chance . . . He is a doctoral student, consumed by calculations on time travel, which he uses as a distraction from destructive thoughts. She is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictably tedious, including and, perhaps especially, herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, sometimes imagining a new, alternate timeline springing from each rash decision. To Aldo, the world feels chaotic. So he’s erected a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules. Without them, the framework of his existence would collapse. For Regan and Aldo, life has involved resigning themselves to society’s expectations. But could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that disrupts the entire simulation? ‘Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent’ – Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights 'This is a book to savor' - Publishers Weekly 'Pages fly by in this character-driven novel that is intimate, complicated, and utterly romantic' - Booklist