SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE BOOK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUTJust read it. Its unforgettableIndia Knight, The Sunday TimesIt is impossible to read this novel and not be moved. It is also impossible not to laugh out loud... ExtraordinaryGuardianFull of snappy oneliners but, at the same time, remarkably poignantCraig Brown Probably the best book youll read this yearMail on SundayCompletely brilliant. I think every girl and woman should read itGillian AndersonExactly the book to read right now, when you need a laugh, but want to cryObserverThe most wonderful, heartbreakingly gorgeous novel of the yearElizabeth Day, author of MagpieA raucously funny, beautifully written, emotionbashing bookThe TimesI was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realised that I wanted to send it to everyone I knowAnn Patchett, author of The Dutch House One of those "read it in one sitting and tell all your friends" kind of booksEvening StandardPatrick Melrose meets Fleabag. BrilliantClare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets.So why is everything broken? Why is Martha on the edge of 40 friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? And why did Patrick decide to leave?Maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most...

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