Lidija Hilje

So excited about this interview @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Thank you @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social for asking such insightful questions! And enormous thanks to @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🤍

Oh wow! Thank you so much, this means the world to me! x

Slanting Towards the Sea is an Editor’s Pick for Marie Claire! So thankful for this amazing review by Catherine Jarvie! 💕

And forever grateful for the best publicist, @jimenagorraez.bsky.social at @dauntbookspub.bsky.social 🤍

Thank you so much for reading 💕

Slanting Towards the Sea, Lidija Hilje — nb. Magazine Review by Dion Everett

'Beautiful, lush and deeply human' Words by Dion Everett for @nbmagazine.bsky.social on @lidijahilje.bsky.social stunning debut SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA. Out now!
www.nbmagazine.co.uk/editorialarc...

UK publication day for SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA was nothing short of a dream come true. I’m blessed with the best team @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and supported by the incredible bookselling family @dauntbooks.bsky.social. Thank you, thank you!!!

Thank you for sharing this, Jimena! And I’m the lucky one, to get to work with you and the rest of the marvelous team at @dauntbookspub.bsky.social 🤍

The tragedy of a life not lived: Slanting Towards the Sea, by Lidija Hilje reviewed ‘He leaned in to kiss me. And when he did, something inside me reoriented itself, my world softly tipping into his direction, as if he himself were the sea.’ This is the story of Ivona and Vlaho, one ...

To celebrate SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social here's a glowing review by Emily Goulding for @thespectator1828.bsky.social
‘Poignant and evocative, exploring first love with an intensity so raw that reading feels like pressing on a bruise.’
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

Thank you, David! What a dream of a day it was! Thank you for your support 🤍

My debut SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA is out today from @simonbooks.bsky.social

A sensual, decades-long love story set against the wild beauty of an emerging Croatia, exploring what it means to come of age in a country younger than oneself.

“Dynamite debut.” — Claire Lombardo.

Thank you so much! And that you’re reading it in Cavtat is so meta 🤍

Looking like @dauntbookspub.bsky.social are publishing one of the best books of the year again. Currently in Croatia reading @lidijahilje.bsky.social’s SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA and it’s all kinds of wonderful!

Thank you for sharing 🤍

book cover for slanting toward the sea by lidija hilje with white lettering over a painting of a woman with dark hair in a bun and large round gold earrings in quarter profile looking over a body of water and wearing a black swimsuit

SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social comes out 7/8/25 from @simonschuster.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social #croatia #summer #ComingOfAge #TwentyYears #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 6/1!

So excited to share that my essay was published in @nytimes.com MODERN LOVE column. It’s a long time dream come true!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/s...

@dauntbookspub.bsky.social summer queen 😭 You really know the way to a girl’s heart 🫠🫠 Thank you for the opportunity to read!

I can literally hear Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s voice in my head :)

Finally signed up for bluesky and how amazing that the #coverreveal of the UK edition of #slantingtowardsthesea gets to be my first post here☀️