The Mutual Friend: the unmissable debut novel from the co-creator of How I Met Your Mother

by Carter Bays

New York, 2015. In a city of more than 8 million people, there are always new places to visit, new connections to be made, new experiences to be shared.

But not for Alice Quick. Determined to finally take her MCAT exam and become a doctor, this has to be a summer of no distractions. So it's a shame that her chaotic roommate Roxy is persistently getting her into trouble, not the most convenient timing for her millionaire brother Bill to decide to embark upon a spiritual search for the meaning of life and plain inconvenient that Alice just can't seem to put down her phone.

And then there's the biggest distraction of all, threatening to permanently derail all of her plans: love.

Paperback

Published May 25, 2023

Reviews

[Samantha Ouellette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not what I was expecting, but boy did it make me existential. And I stayed up past my bedtime to finish it so that says something.

[Brenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25