Loveless

Georgia Warr is eighteen and has never had a crush, kissed anyone or wanted to. She has read piles of romance novels and written fanfiction about love, and she is certain her own story is about to begin.

She starts her first year at Durham University alongside her best friends Pip Quintana and Jason Farley-Shaw. Her goal is simple: find romance and learn what everyone else seems to feel.

University puts her with a new flatmate, the outgoing Rooney Bach, and with Sunil Jha, who runs the Pride Society. Their company pushes Georgia toward a question she has dodged for years: whether she is broken, or whether she might be aromantic and asexual.

Meanwhile an awkward near-romance with Jason complicates things, and her group of friends begins to pull in separate directions. The book is a contemporary young adult campus novel covering Georgia's first term, and it treats platonic love and found family as stories worth telling in their own right.

It shares a universe with Alice Oseman's Heartstopper, with brief cameos from that series' characters, but it stands on its own and needs no earlier reading. It won the YA Book Prize in 2021.