Seduction Theory: The smart, funny, delicious campus novel that everyone is making their summer read of 2025
Emily Adrian
Aug 2025 · Hachette UK
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About this ebook
'The most fun I have had with a novel in years' Megan Nolan
'So emotionally honest, clever and sexy' Charlotte Mendelson
'By far and away my favourite book of the year - and probably next year, too' Nathan Filer
Love and marriage - and infidelity. Seduction Theory is a smart, funny, delicious novel about a long marriage being derailed during a hot summer on a prestigious American campus.
What they were doing was not an affair because Ethan had never laid a hand on Abigail. But it also was, because leaving a department potluck to buy cigarettes was better than sex.
The long summer holiday has begun on the campus of Edwards University in upstate New York.
Simone is the star of the creative writing department, a renowned scholar, successful memoirist and campus sex icon.
Ethan, her devoted husband, is a lecturer in the same department, though he hasn't published a novel since he was twenty-six.
Their marriage is long, strong and happy. But, over the course of that aggressively hot summer break, both will stray. And, as others become involved, new sides to the story of this apparently flawless marriage will emerge.
Deliciously smart and bitingly funny, Seduction Theory is a novel about love and betrayal, truth and fiction, power and attraction.
'So classy, so cool and so funny' Naomi Wood
'Funny, clever and beguiling' Lisa Owens
'This summer's smart, classy sun lounger read' Georgina Moore
'So emotionally honest, clever and sexy' Charlotte Mendelson
'By far and away my favourite book of the year - and probably next year, too' Nathan Filer
Love and marriage - and infidelity. Seduction Theory is a smart, funny, delicious novel about a long marriage being derailed during a hot summer on a prestigious American campus.
What they were doing was not an affair because Ethan had never laid a hand on Abigail. But it also was, because leaving a department potluck to buy cigarettes was better than sex.
The long summer holiday has begun on the campus of Edwards University in upstate New York.
Simone is the star of the creative writing department, a renowned scholar, successful memoirist and campus sex icon.
Ethan, her devoted husband, is a lecturer in the same department, though he hasn't published a novel since he was twenty-six.
Their marriage is long, strong and happy. But, over the course of that aggressively hot summer break, both will stray. And, as others become involved, new sides to the story of this apparently flawless marriage will emerge.
Deliciously smart and bitingly funny, Seduction Theory is a novel about love and betrayal, truth and fiction, power and attraction.
'So classy, so cool and so funny' Naomi Wood
'Funny, clever and beguiling' Lisa Owens
'This summer's smart, classy sun lounger read' Georgina Moore
About the author
Emily Adrian is the author of Daughterhood, The Second Season, and Everything Here Is Under Control, as well as two critically acclaimed novels for young adults. Her novel Seduction Theory is forthcoming in August, 2025. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Point, Joyland, EPOCH, Alta Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Millions. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Emily currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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