Indyana Schneider in conversation with Madeleine Gray

They say it takes 28 Questions to fall in love. Then what? 

‘Reader, imagine yielding to someone with a power so strong she has the ability to slice time. Before. Her. After.’ 

When first-year music student Amalia stumbles into her Oxford college bar, she has no idea that everything is about to change. Seated across from her is Alex, a velvety-voiced fellow Australian with eyes the colour of her native sky. They strike up a friendship that is immediate - its intensity both thrilling and terrifying.   As the days and weeks go by, they spend more and more time together: philosophising, hypothesising, questioning everything. There is nothing they cannot talk about, except the one thing that matters most. Dare they risk a romantic entanglement if it threatens this most perfect of friendships?  Set across four years and five cities, and suffused with music, literature, art, dance, sex, and the exquisite…