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Beth O'Leary

Beth is a Sunday Times bestselling author whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. Her debut, The Flatshare, sold over a million copies and is now a major TV series. Her subsequent novels, The Switch,The Road Trip and The No-Show, were all instant bestsellers and The Switch has been optioned by Amblin Partners, Steven Spielberg's production company.

Beth writes her books in the Hampshire countryside with a very badly behaved Golden Retriever for company. If she's not at her desk, you'll usually find her curled up somewhere with a book, a cup of tea and several wooly jumpers (whatever the weather).

Author photo by Holly Bobbins Photography

The No-Show

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, BETH O'LEARY.

The funny, heart-breaking and uplifting new novel from the bestselling author of The Flatshare

Three women. Three dates. One missing man...

8.52 a.m. Siobhan's been looking forward to her breakfast date with Joseph. She was surprised when he suggested it - she normally sees him late at night in her hotel room. Breakfast with Joseph on Valentine's Day surely means something ... so where is he?

2.43 p.m. Miranda's hoping that a Valentine's Day lunch with Carter will be the perfect way to celebrate her new job. It's a fresh start and a sign that her grown-up life is finally falling into place: she's been dating Carter for five months now and things are getting serious. But why hasn't he shown up?

6.30 p.m. Joseph Carter agreed to be Jane's fake boyfriend at a colleague's engagement party. They've not known each other long but their friendship is fast becoming the brightest part of her new life in Winchester. Joseph promised to save Jane tonight. But he's not here...

Meet Joseph Carter. That is, if you can find him.

The No-Show is the brilliantly funny, heart-breaking and joyful new novel from Beth O'Leary about dating, and waiting, and the ways love can find us. An utterly extraordinary tearjerker of a book, this is O'Leary's most ambitious novel yet.

Territory Publisher/Agent
World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth Quercus
North America Berkley
Arabic Jarir Bookstore
Brazil (Portuguese) Intrinseca
Czech Republic Albatros Media
Denmark Flamingo
Denmark Flamingo
Finland WSOY
German Diana / Heyne
Hungary General Press
Israel Kinneret
Italy Mondadori
Poland Albatros
Portugal Topseller
Russia AST
Spain Suma/PRH
Slovakia Ikar
Slovenia Ucila
Sweden Printz Publishing
The Netherlands De Fontein
Ukraine Vivat
Dramatic Rights / under option

The Road Trip

Addie and her sister are about to embark on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in rural Scotland. The playlist is all planned and the snacks are packed.

But, not long after setting off, a car slams into the back of theirs. The driver is none other than Addie's ex, Dylan, who she's avoided since their traumatic break-up two years earlier.

Dylan and his best mate are heading to the wedding too, and they've totalled their car, so Addie has no choice but to offer them a ride. The car is soon jam-packed full of luggage and secrets, and with four hundred miles ahead of them, Dylan and Addie can't avoid confronting the very messy history of their relationship...

Will they make it to the wedding on time? And, more importantly... is this really the end of the road for Addie and Dylan?

Territory Publisher/Agent
World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth Quercus
North America Berkley
Arabic Jarir Bookstore
Brazil Intrinseca
Bulgaria Ibis
Croatia Znanje
Denmark Flamingo
Dutch De Fontein
Finland WSOY
Germany Diana / Heyne
Hungary General Press
Italy Mondadori
Lithuania Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishers
Norway Gyldendal
Poland Albatros
Portugal Topseller 20/20 Editora
Russia AST
Serbia Laguna
Slovakia Ikar
Slovenia Ucila
Spain Suma de Letras/PRHGE
The Netherlands De Fontein
Dramatic Rights / under option

The Switch

Eileen is sick of being 79.
Leena's tired of life in her twenties.
Maybe it's time they swapped places...

When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn eighty. She'd like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen.

Once Leena learns of Eileen's romantic predicament, she proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can live in London and look for love. Meanwhile Leena will look after everything in rural Yorkshire. But with gossiping neighbours and difficult family dynamics to navigate up north, and trendy London flatmates and online dating to contend with in the city, stepping into one another's shoes proves more difficult than either of them expected.

Leena learns that a long-distance relationship isn't as romantic as she hoped it would be, and then there is the annoyingly perfect - and distractingly handsome - school teacher, who keeps showing up to outdo her efforts to impress the local villagers. Back in London, Eileen is a huge hit with her new neighbours, but is her perfect match nearer home than she first thought?

Territory Publisher/Agent
World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth Quercus
North America Flatiron Books
Arabic Jarir Bookstore
Brazil Intrinseca
Croatia Znanje
Czech Republic Albatros Media
Denmark Cicero
Estonia Varrak
Finland WSOY
France Hugo et Cie
Germany Diana / Heyne
Greece Metaixmio
Hungary General Press
Italy Mondadori
Lithuania Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishers
Norway Gyldendal
Poland Albatros
Portugal Topseller 20/20 Editora
Romania Litera
Russia AST
Serbia Laguna
Slovenia Ucila
Spain Suma
Sweden Printz Publishing
Thailand Salmon Books
The Netherlands De Fontein
Turkey Dogan
Ukraine Vivat
Dramatic Rights / under option

The Flatshare

Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast.

Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash.

Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.

But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly-imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want to live happily ever after you need to throw the rulebook out the window.

Can true love blossom even if you never see one another?

Or does true love blossom when you are least expecting it?
 

Territory Publisher/Agent
World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth Quercus
North America Flatiron Books
Arabic Jarir Bookstore
Bulgaria Ibis
Bulgarian Audio Storytel Bulgaria
Brazil Intrinseca
Catalan Suma de Letras
Croatia Znanje
Czech Republic Albatros Media
Denmark HarperCollins Nordic
Estonia Varrak
Finland WSOY
France Editions Fayard
Germany Diana / Heyne
Greece Patakis
Hungary General Press
Iceland Forlagid JPV
Italy Mondadori
Israel Kinneret
Korea Sallim
Lithuania Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishers
Macedonia ARs Lamina
Norway Gyldendal
Poland Albatros
Portugal Topseller 20/20 Editora
The Netherlands De Fontein
Romania Litera
Romanian Litera
Russia AST
Russian Audio AST
Serbia Laguna
Slovakia Ikar
Slovenia Ucila
Spain Suma
Sweden Printz Publishing
Thailand Salmon Books
Turkey Dogan Kitap
Ukraine Vivat
Vietnam Hoa Hoc Tro
Film rights Under Option

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