We Go Way Back
A Novel

Quotes

"We Go Way Back brims with yearning and nostalgia as two soulmates try to reconcile twenty years of shared history in three days...before one marries somebody else. The tension between Frances and Callum crackles off the page—I couldn't put this down." —Emma Brodie, New York Times bestselling author of Into the Blue and Songs in Ursa Major

"Niamh Connolly’s bighearted We Go Way Back illuminates the lives of two kindred souls destined to be together. Or are they? I couldn’t stop turning the pages of this tender will-they-won’t-they tale until I found out." —Heather Aimee O'Neill, nationally bestselling author of The Irish Goodbye

"I couldn't put this book down to save my own life; I felt Niamh Connolly's characters in my bones. We Go Way Back is Normal People meets My Best Friend's Wedding by a fresh voice in fiction—a masterful love story I'll be thinking about for a long time." —Carola Lovering, bestselling author of Tell Me Lies

"I devoured this novel. With grace, precision, and immense emotional intelligence, Connolly captures the exquisite ache of longing. Beautifully written and utterly absorbing." —Loretta Rothschild, bestselling author of Finding Grace

"We Go Way Back is a love story, about what it is to yearn for someone so strongly that you are willing to lose yourself, leave yourself and your past behind. It is also a story about loving yourself, about yearning to be okay, hoping, desperately, against hope that one day you will be able to understand yourself and the world around you better, and be better in it. But for me, most importantly, We Go Way Back is about the importance of imperfection, of being able to see it and love it in others, that you might see it and love it in yourself, no matter how long it takes." —Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us

"Prepare to fall in love with Callum and Frances. This is an extraordinarily special book—so nostalgic, moving, funny, and beautifully written." —Louise O’Neill, bestselling author of Asking For It

"We Go Way Back is a love story that is deeply sexy and sad and funny and unafraid of its characters’ pain. Achingly honest, deft in its balance of bluntness and sincerity, it made me feel less alone and also turned me on… What more could one ask for, really?" —Eva Victor, writer-director and actor, Sorry, Baby

"Funny, heart-wrenching and completely divine. My favorite kind of love story." —Hannah Beer, author of I Make My Own Fun

"I had a blast reading it. It's sharp, sweet and relatable, with a wicked urn of phrase. Gobbled it up in a weekend." —Harry Lighton, writer-director, Pillion

"An electric love story for anyone who has ever convinced themselves that they were over it, who believes that timing is everything (until it's terrible), or who wants to laugh, ache and be reminded of how big, strange and generous life can be. Funny, tender, true. Niamh Connolly writes the way life feels." —Cecilia Rabess, author of Everything's Fine

"A beautifully woven epic love story, filled with characters who leap off the page and into your heart, We Go Way Back is a sparkling debut that will make you laugh and cry and stay up way too late turning the pages." —Annabel Monaghan, New York Times bestselling author of Dolly All the Time