Soulmates are meant to be forever. But when yours is your best friend, is the heartbreak of losing them too big to patch?

Soulmates are meant to be forever. But when yours is your best friend, is the heartbreak of losing them too big to patch?

Join us with Genevieve Wheeler, in conversation with Hattie Williams, to discus Lina and June, a novel about growing up, growing apart and navigating one of life’s biggest heartbreaks: a friendship breakup.

Lina and June’s friendship shouldn’t make sense. June has her future planned to a T; Lina takes life day by day, party by party. June’s dreams are colourcoded and neatly filed, while Lina’s are even too big for New York City, where she and June are university students. But after a messy night out throws the two girls together, it seems like nothing can tear them apart.

Until June’s health takes an unexpected turn for the worse.

Until Lina jets off to Paris, leaving her best friend behind.

As Lina and June’s once intertwined lives veer off on separate paths, they’re on their own to figure out how to fix their severed bond.

Genevieve Wheeler is an American writer and communications director. Her bylines have appeared in publications including Cosmopolitan, Vice, Vogue Business, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, and PopSugar, and her work and words have been cited in The New York Times, Vox, the BBC World Service, Cheddar News, Jezebel, and beyond. She holds an M.A. in marketing communications from the University of Westminster in London and a B.S. in advertising from Boston University. She’s currently based in London. Her debut novel, Adelaide, was published by Head of Zeus in 2024.

Hattie Williams left education in her teens to pursue a career as a musician. She has toured Europe extensively, made three studio albums, and worked as a composer with her tracks still regularly featured on TV and streaming services across the world. In her mid-twenties she found herself working in publishing quite by accident, and an admin temping job turned into a twelve-year career in which she worked with some of the biggest authors in the world. Hattie lives in east London. Her debut, Bitter Sweet, was published in 2025 and was translated into 11 languages. Her second novel, Light Years, will publish in April 2027.

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