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Cash Out
  • Published: 19 January 2027
  • ISBN: 9780241745946
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $38.00

Cash Out

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Tr. Paperback
19 Jan 2027
Hardback
14 Feb 2027
EBook
14 Jan 2027
Audiobook
14 Jan 2027
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Nick Hornby returns with an irresistible, exhilarating novel about finding the courage to change your life

Sophie has never really thought about money, and she certainly hasn’t thought about football – save for the few times she sees her uncle Keith at family gatherings, asking in mock politeness how his favourite team – Leicester City FC – might be doing that season.

But when Keith makes a bet for Leicester’s win in Sophie’s name, something inexplicable happens. She begins to think about money – lots of money – and she begins to think about football. The team are on a winning streak, and the bookies are offering her good money to cash out. Maybe Sophie can finally pull herself and her slacker boyfriend out of the financial holes he keeps digging. A new man is on the horizon; a windfall is within reach - Sophie must decide whether to play it safe and cash out, or to risk it all…
  • Published: 19 January 2027
  • ISBN: 9780241745946
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby is the bestselling author of nine novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and Just Like You, as well as several works of nonfiction including Fever Pitch. His books have sold over 3.5 million copies in the UK, and many have been turned into successful films and TV series. He has been Oscar-nominated twice for his screenplays, and his TV work has won three Emmys. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. He lives in London.
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Also by Nick Hornby

Dickens and Prince
High Fidelity: Popular Penguins
Just Like You
State of the Union
Fever Pitch: Popular Penguins
A Long Way Down
Funny Girl
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Praise for Cash Out

A book not just for relatives of football fans who wonder why the stupid game is so important but for those who understand already. Read it and you'll find yourself invested either way. Nick Hornby's charismatic, funny, wise, and deeply entertaining novel has the effervescence of prime Kanté and the pace of Vardy on the counter

Benjamin Wood

A joy from start to finish

Kate Atkinson

CASH OUT will delight those indifferent to football, those obsessed, and everyone in between. A story with tension, dilemma, money, sex, an underdog, and a disloyal sister. I have never been less bored reading a book in my life. I LOVED it

Nina Stibbe

Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous all at once

New York Times

Hornby is the poet of the everyday

Observer

Hornby writes with a fresh, funny voice

Guardian

Nick Hornby returns to the subject that made us all fall in love with his writing and CASH OUT's riveting premise will appeal to everyone, whether they love football or not. Final score: Entertainment - 7. Boredom – 0

John O'Farrell

One of my favourite writers

Dolly Alderton

Reading CASH OUT is like watching the last seven minutes of the match – you can't look away, and you are holding your breath until the final, triumphant word. I absolutely loved it

Miranda Cowley Heller

So clever and funny, and such a brilliant conceit for building a plot around what it means to be a fan... I loved it

Ben Markovits

''We're having the time of our lives' is the refrain running through CASH OUT, and I had the time of mine reading it. A love letter to football, and a love story - it is very, very funny and it is Nick Hornby at his best.

Roddy Doyle