Slow Dance

Rainbow Rowell is back with her first adult novel in ten years in this uplifting novel about star-crossed lovers and the power of second chances.

Everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together – everybody but Shiloh and Cary.

follows these star-crossed best friends from their inseparable teen years on the wrong side of the tracks to their far-flung adulthoods – through her marriage and motherhood and his time in the Navy – as they try to work out what they’re actually supposed to be to each other.

Told with Rowell’s trademark sensitivity and abundant wit, a big, beaming power ballad of a novel about a love so true, it refuses to be forgotten.

Format: Paperback
Imprint: Michael Joseph
ISBN: 9781405964784
Published: November 2025