Ali Hazelwood Audiobooks

Romance in the laboratory: The Love Hypothesis, written by an actual neuroscientist

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Who is Ali Hazelwood?

Ali Hazelwood has one of the more improbable dual careers in contemporary fiction: she is both a romance novelist and a neuroscience professor. Italian by origin and based in the United States, she writes from inside the world her books describe – much of her fiction centres on women making their way in STEM fields and academia, territory she knows from the laboratory and lecture hall rather than from research for a novel.

Her debut, The Love Hypothesis, announced her emphatically: it became a New York Times bestseller, and a film adaptation is in development. Few debuts land with that kind of force – fewer still from an author holding down a scientific career at the same time.

Ali Hazelwood in audiobooks

Romance is one of audio’s powerhouse genres, and Hazelwood gives its familiar satisfactions a distinctive setting: love among scientists and scholars, written by someone who actually is one. Our catalogue features The Love Hypothesis, the debut that made her name – and whose very title signals the signature move, the language of science pressed into the service of the heart.

For listeners, the appeal is a smart refresh of a beloved formula: all the emotional payoff of romance, plus heroines with careers, laboratories and ambitions of their own. As an entry point to one of the genre’s most talked-about newer voices, The Love Hypothesis is the obvious choice – it is where everything started.