Infamous, Lex Croucher
Infamous, Lex Croucher
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Infamous
A Novel

Author: Lex Croucher

Narrator: Ellie Kendrick

Unabridged: 10 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/21/2023


Synopsis

Named A Most Anticipated Romance of 2023 by Goodreads and Bookpage

"Croucher infuses this energetic Regency era friends-to-lovers sapphic romance with zany wit, joie de vivre, and a distinctive literary bent... Bookish readers who wish that Alcott’s Little Women were a bit more explicitly queer will lap this up." ––Publishers Weekly

"Narrator Ellie Kendrick does an outstanding job portraying the time and place of this friends-to-lovers sapphic romance, set in the Regency era. Kendrick's evocative narration captures the drama and contrasts the diversity of the characters, along with their moods and personalities, with distinctive voices."- AudioFIle

Twenty-two-year-old aspiring writer Edith (“Eddie”) Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together—from climbing trees and sneaking bottles of wine, to extensive kissing practice. But Rose has started talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified. Why can’t they continue as they always have?

Then Eddie meets charming, renowned poet Nash Nicholson––a rival of Lord Byron, if he does say so himself––and he welcomes her into his world of eccentric artists and boundary-breaking visionaries. When Eddie receives an invitation to Nash's crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside, promising inspiration (and time to finish her novel, a long-held dream), she eagerly agrees. But the pure hedonism and debauchery that ensues isn’t exactly what she had in mind, and Eddie soon finds herself torn between her complicated feelings for Rose and her equally complicated dynamic with Nash, whose increasingly bad behavior doesn’t match up to her vision for her literary hero.

Will Eddie be forced to choose between her friendship with Rose and her literary dreams––or will she be able to write her own happily ever after?

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

About Lex Croucher

Lex Croucher is the New York Times bestselling author of Reputation, Infamous, and the YA novel, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love. Lex grew up in Surrey reading a lot of books and making friends with strangers on the internet, and now lives in London.

About Ellie Kendrick

Ellie Kendrick is a writer and performer across film, theatre and television. She is a graduate of the Channel 4 Screenwriting Programme. She started writing at the Royal Court Theatre, where she has completed the Young Writers Group, Studio Group and a special invitation group led by EV Crowe. Her first play, TABS, was shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and her second play has been commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre. She is currently writing two more of her own original ideas under commission for Channel 4 and HighTide theatre and has projects in development with several independent television companies. Her work as a performer includes Game of Thrones, An Education, The Diary of Anne Frank, Misfits, Being Human, Upstairs Downstairs and plays at the Royal Court, Globe and Hampstead theatres.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jasmine on February 12, 2023

Infamous is a bright queer romance set in the Regency era. Best friends since their childhood, Edith “Eddie” and Rose promised each other that they would never marry. Eddie took that as a solemn vow, but Rose assumed it wasn’t that serious. A rift forms between the two when Rose begins seeing someon......more

Goodreads review by Katie on July 31, 2022

Clever, fun, hilarious. As funny as Jane Austen and I do not say that lightly.......more

Goodreads review by douqi on July 23, 2022

This book has earned the dubious honour of making me angry enough to post a review. Particular lowlights: - yet another example of a romance novel with a white MC and an Asian love interest who is conveniently alienated from her own culture. - of course, said Asian love interest instantly forgives th......more

Goodreads review by AbbysBooks on June 13, 2022

Sometimes I worry I hype myself up to read a book so much before it comes out that I’ll be disappointed. Lex did not disappoint me. If I could bottle these characters and have them as my friends I would do it.......more

Goodreads review by Marta on June 28, 2023

it isn't love, it isn't hate, it's just indifference......more


Quotes

"Croucher’s novel is witty, well-written, and heartfelt and will intrigue those looking for writerly heroines and friends-to-lovers romance between women." ––Library Journal

"Gleeful and unruly, Infamous brings Gen Z zeitgeist to some seriously hilarious Regency angst. Croucher is a rare talent, with a genius for hijinks, hot messes, irrepressible characters, and turns of phrase that will stick in your mind until the end of time. Eddie's coming-of-age arc shines with insights into the wild, worthwhile work it takes to find yourself, and find love." ––Joanna Lowell, author of The Duke Undone

Praise for Reputation:

There’s nothing prim or proper about Croucher’s dazzling debut, which is so boldly, audaciously modern in its portrayal of 19th-century mean-girl culture that I kept waiting for someone to inform the heroine that on Wednesdays, they wear pink." ––BookPage, starred review

"Think of Bridgerton crossed with Sex Education and you have Reputation...reminding us that the process of coming of age really hasn’t changed for centuries." ––Good Housekeeping (UK)

"Reputation is the fresh, fiercely feminist, and utterly irreverent sendup of Jane Austen that I didn't know I needed." ––Martha Waters, author of To Have and to Hoax