The Rest of Our Lives: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 by Benjamin Markovits games Impatient and intractable

Impatient and intractable

In A Place of Our Own

don’t sleep on her signature Thick’ems—giant cookies that are somehow crunchy and gooey—the most requested recipe in Paola’s repertoire and the recipe that made her internet famous

PaperbackPublication: 27 Feb 2003

and the basics of a Malaysian pantry (shrimp paste

The Rest of Our Lives: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 by Benjamin Markovits games Impatient and intractableSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 'An elegant, devastating book.' OBSERVER 'Funny, wise and knowing.' CLARE CHAMBERS 'Packs a serious emotional punch.' DAILY TELEGRAPH When Tom's wife had an affair, he resolved to leave her once their children had grown up. Twelve years later, after driving his daughter to university, he remembers his pact and keeps driving West to visit friends, family and an old girlfriend. But he also has secrets of his own