Pan Macmillan Paperback English
Alone With You in the Ether
A love story like no other and a Heat Magazine Book of the Week
By Olivie Blake
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<p><b>From the internationally bestselling author of <i>The Atlas Six, </i><i>Alone With You in the Ether</i> by Olivie Blake is a glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.</b><br><br>Chicago, sometime. Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change.<br><br>Everything else, however, is slightly different.<br><br>Both obsessive, eccentric personalities, Aldo Damiani and Charlotte Regan struggle to be without each other from the moment they meet. The truth - that he is a clinically depressed, anti-social theoretician and she is a manipulative liar with a history of self-sabotage - means the deeper they fall in love, the more troubling their reliance on each other becomes.<br><br><b><i>Alone With You in the Ether</i> by Olivie Blake is a literary, intimate study of time, space - and a love story like no other.<br><br>Praise for Olivie Blake:</b><br><br><b>'Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent' – Chloe Gong</b><br><br><b>'This is a book to savor' - <i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><br><b>'Pages fly by in this character-driven novel that is intimate, complicated, and utterly romantic' - <i>Booklist</i></b></p>
<p><b>From the internationally bestselling author of <i>The Atlas Six, </i><i>Alone With You in the Ether</i> by Olivie Blake is a glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.</b><br><br>Chicago, sometime. Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change.<br><br>Everything else, however, is slightly different.<br><br>Both obsessive, eccentric personalities, Aldo Damiani and Charlotte Regan struggle to be without each other from the moment they meet. The truth - that he is a clinically depressed, anti-social theoretician and she is a manipulative liar with a history of self-sabotage - means the deeper they fall in love, the more troubling their reliance on each other becomes.<br><br><b><i>Alone With You in the Ether</i> by Olivie Blake is a literary, intimate study of time, space - and a love story like no other.<br><br>Praise for Olivie Blake:</b><br><br><b>'Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent' – Chloe Gong</b><br><br><b>'This is a book to savor' - <i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><br><b>'Pages fly by in this character-driven novel that is intimate, complicated, and utterly romantic' - <i>Booklist</i></b></p>