One Of Dua Lipa's Favorite Books Helped Pave The Way For Her Love Story With Callum Turner

News of Dua Lipa's engagement to actor Callum Turner has been subtly cresting for months — hinted at in cryptic selfies, glinting in Instagram carousels, and as of June 2025, finally confirmed to British Vogue over dinner. The ring began making cameo appearances on Lipa's Instagram in late 2024, appearing alongside a smiling Turner and a telltale stack of Tiffany boxes. Speaking to the fashion outlet, Dua confirmed what fans had long suspected. "I'm obsessed with it. It's so me," she said of the ring. "It's nice to know the person that you're going to spend the rest of your life with knows you very well."

This sentiment was made all the more convincing by the fact that Lipa and Turner's relationship began in the margins of a novel they happened to be reading at the same time. They'd been orbiting the same places and people for years: both at the same Soho restaurant in 2014, both at the same party in 2020, an hour apart, captured in photos with the same mutual friend. They had, as Lipa put it, "so many friends in common."

But it wasn't until a dinner in Los Angeles — a year after another passing encounter at London's River Cafe — that something serendipitously shifted. Dua was in Los Angeles, having dinner with her friend, Mustafa the Poet, when Turner appeared again. "All of a sudden Callum shows up," she recalled. He asked her what she was reading. She told him: "Trust," by Hernan Diaz. "And we both just happened to be reading the same book." You could put it down to a cute coincidence, but when asked whether it felt like a sign, she didn't waver, "One hundred percent" she told the outlet.

We love a literary meet-cute — especially when it involves one of our favorite bookish tastemakers. Through The best picks from Dua Lipa's book club, Service95, champion great works of contemporary fiction (and some non-fiction) from diverse authors from around the world. In March 2024, she chose Hernan Diaz's "Trust" as her book of the month — the same novel she happened to be reading when she ran into Callum Turner in Los Angeles.

The novel's premise is slippery by design: a story told in layers, refracted through multiple voices. A powerful financier who emerges from 1929 wealthier than ever becomes the subject of speculation and rival accounts. Told through shifting perspectives – a suppressed novel, an unfinished autobiography, a memoir, and private manuscripts — "Trust" asks readers to weigh each account against the others, and, ultimately, to confront how easily public perception can be distorted by private machinations.

Lipa, for her part, was hooked. "'Trust' is also one of those books that I just can't seem to stop talking about," she told her YouTube channel, "I feel like I've recommended it to every single person I know." But "Trust" also has its own impressive fanbase. It was a pick for Natalie Portman's book club. Barack Obama named it a favorite on his 2022 reading list. It also won the Pulitzer Prize in 2023. Astrologer Susan Miller even included it in an exclusive zodiac-themed summer beach reading list for Women (recommending it specifically for Capricorns).Turner, it turns out, was already deep into the book when he and the "Levitating" singer crossed paths again. This might seem like coincidence, but where's the narrative pleasure in that? Let's call it kismet, and hope that "Trust" scores a mention in the wedding toast.