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I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: the whip-smart domestic comedy you won't be able to put down
Rebecca Wait
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Coping with illness & specific conditions, Coping with death & bereavement, Family & relationships
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- Paperback May 9, 2023 | 9781529420463 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jul 12, 2022 | 9781529420456 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 8, 2022 | 9781529420470 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 7, 2022 | 9781529420487 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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riverrun
- Paperback May 9, 2023 | 9781529420463 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jul 12, 2022 | 9781529420456 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 8, 2022 | 9781529420470 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 7, 2022 | 9781529420487 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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riverrun
- Paperback May 9, 2023 | 9781529420463 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jul 12, 2022 | 9781529420456 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 8, 2022 | 9781529420470 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 7, 2022 | 9781529420487 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
riverrun
- Paperback May 9, 2023 | 9781529420463 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jul 12, 2022 | 9781529420456 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 8, 2022 | 9781529420470 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 7, 2022 | 9781529420487 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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Immensely readable and gorgeously comic, this is Rebecca's finest novel yet.
'IT'LL EASILY BE ONE OF MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR' Hannah Beckerman
'It's a warm book and a touching one. And did I mention it's funny? Just read it. You'll see' The Times
'Funny, tender and sad' Sunday Express
'If you liked Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss, you'll love this novel' Good Housekeeping
'One of the richest explorations of family dysfunction I've read' the i newspaper
'Shades of Fleabag in this smart, funny drama' Mail on Sunday
'An enjoyably bittersweet novel about a dysfunctional modern family' Independent
'Razor-sharp ' Observer
'One of the funniest novels you'll read this year' Guardian
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NOTA BENE PRIZE 2023
THE BOOK THAT YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN
For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with.
There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything . . .
As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments.
From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships.
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING
5* 'I adored this book'
5* 'A brilliant novel about a dysfunctional family'
5* 'This book blew me away'
5* 'Loved, loved, loved this! Laugh-out-loud funny and beautifully poignant'
5* 'The best book i've read this year'
More books by Rebecca Wait
Praise for I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: the whip-smart domestic comedy you won't be able to put down
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SO brilliant. A brutally funny and whip-smart novel about dysfunctional families, with some of the best fictional sibling relationships I've ever read. It'll easily be one of my Books of the Year.
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Toxic mothers, absent fathers, angry sisters and enraging brothers - this sharp, wise comedy explores difficult family dynamics, from all-too-relatable emotional patterns to the inexplicable agonies of mental illness; yet it's also one of the funniest novels you'll read this year. - Guardian (50 Hottest New Summer Reads)
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Rebecca Wait's highly entertaining fourth novel is a masterclass in familial tensions, told with razor-sharp
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dialogue, wit and emotional insight. - Observer
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You'll struggle to find a better opening sentence in fiction this year . . . I loved the deadpan one-liners . . . The dialogue is excellent and captures the way families try to support one another and end up being accidentally horrible instead . . . But even better than the witty observations are the pure comedy set pieces . . . But it's more than just a farce. Things happen, big dramatic things, and there's love and anguish and good people making terrible mistakes . . . It's a warm book and a touching one. And did I mention it's funny? Just read it. You'll see. - The Times
Rebecca Wait
Rebecca is the author of four novels, the most recent of which, I'm Sorry You Feel That Way, was a Times, Guardian, Express, Good Housekeeping and BBC Culture Book of the Year. Her previous novel, Our Fathers, received widespread acclaim and was a Guardian book of the year and a thriller of the month for Waterstones.
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