SELECTED FOR STYLIST'S FICTION YOU CAN'T MISS IN 2022 - 'AN ESSENTIAL READ' NAMED AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE; STYLIST; SHEERLUXE AND FOYLES 'A stone-cold masterpiece by a shocking new talent' OLIVIA LAING It's four in the morning; and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th - the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art; letters and memory; they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. Ten years earlier; and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their graduation. Their ensuing affair; with its violent; animal intensity and its intoxicating and toxic power play will initiate a dance of repulsion and attraction that will cross years; span continents; drag in countless victims - and culminate in terrible betrayal. At Certain Points We Touch is a story of first love and last rites; conjured against a vivid backdrop of London; San Francisco and New York - a riotous; razor-sharp coming-of-age story that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. 'Lauren John Joseph writes with such wit; glamour; and style! I haven't read a book that so powerfully evokes what it's like to be a wild young artist among other wild young artists since the Bright Young Things' TORREY PETERS; author of Detransition; Baby 'Lauren's debut novel is so exciting. The writing is so fresh; funny and gripping - and carries the trademark wit that I have always loved from Lauren' TRAVIS ALABANZA 'The struggle to find ones place in the world as an artist and lover; creating self and culture as you go along - At Certain Points We Touch captures this fleeting; dazzling moment with glamour and heart' MICHELLE TEA