Five Tuesdays in Winter is author Lily King's collection of short stories first published in late 2021. Although each story in Five Tuesdays in Winter is somewhat thematically connected, they tell different stories. One story, for instance, tells the story of a bookseller whose love for his employee is subtly acknowledged, but never explicitly spoken about. Their love, however, eventually rises to the surface, causing several unfortunate things to happen. Another story tells the story of a teenage boy who is ignored and neglected by his parents. When the boy's parents hire two college-aged house sitters, he gets the love and nurturing he has craved for all of his life.
Though there are many kinds of stories with different situations and characters in Five Tuesdays in Winter, each story is deeply personal for King. The reviews for the normal reflected the personal nature of the stories for King. The collection was well-reviewed by various reviewers. In their review of the collection, NPR wrote that King "is a writer who has mastered the art of conveying depths of human feeling in one beautiful sentence after another." The New York Times loved the collection too. In their review of it, they wrote that "In our time of anxiety and isolation, King writes stories to curl up in, by which I mean they afford us something rarely celebrated in literature: comfort."
