Katy Conrad

“neighbor occasionally but refuses to date anyone, whispers “I repent nothing” into the mirrors of a hundred hotel rooms from London to Singapore and in the morning puts on the clothes that make her invincible, a life where the moments of emptiness and disappointment are minimal, where by her midthirties she feels competent and at last more or less at ease in the world, studying foreign languages in first-class lounges and traveling in comfortable seats across oceans, meeting with clients and living her job, breathing her job, until she isn’t sure where she stops and her job begins, almost always loves her life but is often lonely,”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Whimsical . . . a journey to figure out what makes life worth living.” —The Washington Post, named one of the 15 Feel-Good Books Guaranteed to Lift Your Spirits”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Pastries have a special place in my heart—alongside dragons, knives, flowers, and books.”
― Olivia Rose Darling, Fear the Flames

“Vicious little thing, isn’t she?”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless