When the opportunity of a lifetime arrives, will El be ready to make the leap and embrace her wild side?

Stuck in a dead-end job and hopelessly in unrequited love with her best friend, El needs a major life change. One New Year’s resolution to ‘Be More Wild’ later, and she’s committed to doing one wild thing every month for a year. Admittedly, so far it’s amounted to one small tattoo, one bad hangover and one very disappointing threesome, but she’s trying and surely it can only get better…

So when a plan is hatched for El, Ray and their two closest friends - newly heartbroken Joe and Instagram darling Jamie - to ditch the big city and move out to a ramshackle house in the middle of the English countryside, El can hardly say no. This is her big chance for a fresh start, the perfect wild thing.

But living in close proximity to the love of your life without letting on isn’t as easy as El might think…

Can best friends ever really become lovers or could the truth ruin life at ‘the commune’ for ever?

*~* Praise for Laura Kay *~* ‘Full of humour, kindness, cake and a cat, this is the novel to turn to in difficult times’ Katie Fforde

‘The Split has everything I love in a novel. It’s hilariously funny, it’s so uplifting, and its characters are irresistibly loveable’ Beth O'Leary

‘A warm, funny, comforting read with such loveable characters’ Ruth Jones

‘Ferociously funny’ Red

‘It’s like meeting Marian Keyes and Dawn O'Porter in a cosy gay pub in Sheffield!’ Matt Cain

‘It’s rare that a book so important to the literary canon is, at the same time, entertaining, heart-warming, and funny’ Anstey Harris

‘Perfectly capturing the agony of a break-up, you’ll want to wrap them up in a hug, while eating a freshly baked cake’ Heat

‘A brilliant, heart-warming and intensely funny rom com’ My Weekly

‘Glorious, hilarious and life affirming … I absolutely loved it’ Emma Hughes

‘A captivating read from a truly exciting talent’ Justin Myers

‘Truly joyful and uplifting, with a great cast of characters, this is a big-hearted story about what really matters in life: friends, family and love’ Lucy Diamond