Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of two previous novels, Pond and Checkout 19. Her short fiction and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications. She lives near Galway, Ireland.

Praise for Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

"A striking novel about a writer's retreat into solitude in the aftermath of a love affair ... Bennett ranges freely in register and tone, from passionate desire evocative of Ulysses's Molly Bloom to a measured treatise on violence in cinema.... An intellectual tour de force." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

"The speaker's exquisite sensibility, and her assured sense of her own perceptions, provides a throughline for the pastiche of scenes, dreams, and conversations that make up this book.... [It] reminds us that the goal of art is sometimes to see clearly and specifically what is there to be seen, with no duty to dictate its progress or its outcome. A languorously unfurling novel that rewards the reader's attention and time." -Kirkus

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Pub date: 2025-10-21

Length: 224 pages