Point of It All: A Novel

A sharply funny, deeply tender decades-long love story about two women whose lives are deeply entwined, whether they like it or not.

“A love story for anyone who knows happily ever after is rarely a straight line.” —Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara

On the morning of her wedding, Holland finds herself in a hotel room with the one person who has always made her feel most like herself. The ceremony is about to start. The guests are waiting. And suddenly, the life she has carefully constructed feels dangerously easy to step out of.

Ros and Holland meet as teenagers and fall into the kind of love that feels invented just for them—intense, electric, impossible to outgrow. Over the years that follow, they orbit each other across cities and continents, through other relationships, career highs, private griefs, and public reinventions. Sometimes they’re inseparable. Sometimes they’re strangers. But neither of them ever quite escapes the pull of the other.

Sweeping, sharply funny, and deeply tender, The Point of It All captures the particular ache—and magic—of queer longing across a lifetime, asking what we owe our first great love, and whether growing up ever really means growing apart.

At once intimate and epic, this is a love story about timing, yearning, and the one person who might just be the point of it all.