Luxury The View Was Exhausting

Everybody’s talking about Whitman ‘Win’ Tagore and Leo Milanowski. Their on-off romance is the greatest love story of our time. As a woman of colour in Hollywood, Win knows she must work harder than everyone else to control her public image. Whenever she nears scandal, she calls in Leo to divert attention – and the cameras – with their earth-shattering chemistry. Nobody needs to know it’s a lie. But the truth about their relationship isn’t the only secret Leo’s keeping. And, as the line between performance and reality begins to blur, can Win risk taking a chance on real love? The View Was Exhausting is a bold, wickedly observant modern love story about truth, fame and privilege – and how we love now.

Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta have been writing fiction together since they first met in 2013. They are now married and live in Berlin, where they write and study. Originally from Australia, Mikaella was highly commended in the 2019 Bridport Short Story Prize and shortlisted in the 2019 Galley Beggar Press Prize. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the TLS, and the LA Review of Books, amongst others. Onjuli is British and was longlisted in the 2020 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, as well as publishing non-fiction in the Billfold and Daddy Magazine.