<p><b>'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' - Dua Lipa<br><br>The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's <i>A Little Life, </i>by the author of<i> To Paradise </i>and<i> The People in the Trees,</i> is </b><b>an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.</b><br><br>Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards<br>Shortlisted for the Booker Prize<br>Shortlisted for the Women's Prize<br>Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction<br><br>When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.<br><br>Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome &ndash; but that will define his life forever.<br><br><b>'Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind.' &ndash; <i>The Times</i></b></p>