THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken’GUARDIAN
‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘THE FUNNIEST BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ ABOUT GRIEF’ MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
‘PERFECTLY CAPTURES THE MESSINESS, HEARTACHE AND BEAUTY OF GRIEF’ RED MAGAZINE
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR 2026
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025
‘The best book I have read this year’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘Masterly … I’m in awe’ SALMAN RUSHDIE
‘Beautiful’ DOUGLAS STUART
‘Extraordinary’ SARAH MOSS
‘A formidable testament to a mother’s love’ SARA COLLINS
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’ GUARDIAN
‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN
‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG
‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD
‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN
‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG
‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’ GUARDIAN
‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’GUARDIAN
‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD
‘THE FUNNIEST BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ ABOUT GRIEF’ MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
‘SHIMMERS WITH WIT EVEN AS IT EXPLORES DEEP LOSS’ RACHEL KHONG
‘THE FUNNIEST BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ ABOUT GRIEF’ MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
‘SHIMMERS WITH WIT EVEN AS IT EXPLORES DEEP LOSS’ RACHEL KHONG
‘THE FUNNIEST BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ ABOUT GRIEF’ MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
‘SHIMMERS WITH WIT EVEN AS IT EXPLORES DEEP LOSS’ RACHEL KHONG
A propulsive novel about music, coming of age and the cost of fame, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones and the Six.
‘The secrets simmer in this atmospheric, powerful novel’ KATIE BISHOP
‘You won’t be able to put it down’ RUFI THORPE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2025
‘Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it’ TESSA HADLEY
‘Powerfully compelling’ GUARDIAN
‘Unbelievably good’ ELIZABETH DAY
‘Complex and nuanced… the perfect definition of summer reading’ LUCY CALDWELL
‘Subtle, complex, ambitious’THE TIMES
A Guardian Book of the Year 2024
‘Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it’ TESSA HADLEY
‘Powerfully compelling’ GUARDIAN
‘Unbelievably good’ ELIZABETH DAY
‘Complex and nuanced… the perfect definition of summer reading’ LUCY CALDWELL
‘Subtle, complex, ambitious’THE TIMES
A Guardian Book of the Year
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR 2026
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025
‘The best book I have read this year’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘Masterly … I’m in awe’ SALMAN RUSHDIE
‘Beautiful’ DOUGLAS STUART
‘Extraordinary’ SARAH MOSS
‘A formidable testament to a mother’s love’ SARA COLLINS
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR 2026
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025
‘The best book I have read this year’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘Masterly … I’m in awe’ SALMAN RUSHDIE
‘Beautiful’ DOUGLAS STUART
‘Extraordinary’ SARAH MOSS
‘A formidable testament to a mother’s love’ SARA COLLINS
