EAN: 9781529959697

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Beautiful funny wry relatable and uplifting ... I LOVE her work it's so clever and comforting and the antidote to these times' MARIAN KEYES ' The kind of book that pulls up a chair pours the wine and dives deep... like spending hours with the friend who sees your mess and loves you more for it. ' ALISON ESPACH author of The Wedding People 'Gorgeously human tender-hearted and delightfully funny ' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS author of Fundamentally 'Infectiously funny and surprisingly moving Wreck reminds us that we are each in our way trying to make sense of the big things with some very small tools' RACHEL JOYCE author of The Homemade God _______ Rocky Nick Willa and Jamie. A normal loving anxious messy relatable family. Rocky has her own her way of processing disasters: 1. This could happen to us. 2. This couldn't happen to us. And then there's a secret third column: 'This could happen to us unless I am very careful superstitious grateful...' So when a former classmate of Jamie's dies in a seemingly random accident Rocky becomes obsessed. She's also developed a niggling medical condition that won't go away. On the surface she is still living her best life as the irreverent funny beating heart of her family. Her father is his unique adorable self Willa is prone to bouts of existential angst whilst berating the fact that her mother has zero filter Nick is steady logical sometimes infuriating. But if accidents can happen - and they do - is it safe to love anyone? Laugh out loud funny and deeply emotional WRECK follows Rocky and her family through one rollercoaster year as they share the unpredictable beautiful messiness of life. _______ 'T he new queen of the bittersweet novel ...balancing genuine laughs with emotional weight and a clear-eyed view of modern family life' Independent ' Darkly funny achingly emotional this story explores life's wreckage and motherhood's enduring love ... an irreverent yet tender read' Woman & Home 'Insightful and totally relatable ' Good Housekeeping 'I'm in awe of Newman's talent for finding humour in life's disasters and indignities . Seriously funny' Saga PRAISE FOR SANDWICH & WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS: 'Breezy New York Nora-Ephron-style wit meets hospice memoir to create something profoundly beautiful...comforting so funny moving but never mawkish and packed with all kinds of love. It's one of my favourite books ever' bestselling author MARIAN KEYES ' One of the funniest books I've ever read' FEARNE COTTON STYLIST ' I adored this book . Jubilant devastating tender heartbreaking I found myself both in tears and 'snorty-laughing'. A masterclass on friendship family love memory and the messiness of life and love and dying. Pure genius' RACHEL JOYCE author of the bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 'Tragically funny with moments of clarity and wisdom Newman writes loss and laughter in equally brilliant amounts' BONNIE GARMUS bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry 'Newman is truly a master of taking complex and chaotic human emotion and making sense of it ... wise and exquisitely written' GUARDIAN ' Sandwich is joy in book form . I laughed continuously except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life.' ANN PATCHETT New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake

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