<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • <i>GOOD MORNING AMERICA</i> BUZZ PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>, <i>Financial Times</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>Time</i>, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, <i>New York Post, Town & Country</i>, <i>Good Housekeeping</i>, <i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br><br><b><b>Finalist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize • </b>“A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature.”—Molly Young, <i>The New York Times </i>(Editors’ Choice)</b><br><br><b>Eight friends, one country house, and six months in isolation—a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal hailed as a “virtuoso performance” (<i>USA Today</i>) and &