The Nocturnals by Frances Whiting

A new novel from Frances Whiting, bestselling author of The Best Kind of Beautiful, about love, friendship, and the lengths we'll go to for the people who matter.

In the summer of 1997, five high school students meet. Nina the Good Girl, Beatrice the Poetess, Harriet the Ghost, Cosmo the Professor, and Hunter the Golden Boy. Through their last year of school they become inseparable, five sides of the same star, until something fractures between them and scatters them across the world.

Fifteen years later, Hunter calls them all back. Back to the place where they lived and laughed and cried together, before the secrets and the broken promises. None of them know why he's pulling them in, but there's no question they'll go. To outsiders they might be, in turns, a little bit strange, a little bit glamorous, and a little bit dangerous. To each other they are, and always will be, the Nocturnals.

A witty, darkly tender novel about friendship and what we owe the people we choose.

"The Nocturnals is witty, luminous and frankly, irresistible. Think The Breakfast Club meets The Great Gatsby. Clever, funny, and impossible to put down. I'm calling it as one of the best reads of 2026." Rebecca Sparrow, Birds of a Feather Book Club