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Brought to you by Penguin. Years after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself back on the Lower East Side attending a dinner party hosted by Eugene and Nicole – an artist-curator couple – and attended by their...

'We looked like the perfect young family, something out of a magazine, in shades of marshmallow pink...' A photograph. The father smiling beside his new car, the mother pregnant and radiant, the little girl placing cuddly toys in the cot for her new baby brother. All we see is the happiness. 'We...

One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year “Reading the novel is akin to spending time with a witty if merciless observer of other people’s idiocies. There’s something of a latter-day Holden Caulfield about the narrator…it possesses an enlivening, claustrophobic charge.” —The Spectator...

“Funny, moving. . . I defy anyone to finish this story without tears in their eyes.” —Graeme Simsion, bestselling author of The Rosie Project What would you do if you knew you only had 100 days left to live? For Lucio Battistini, it’s a chance to spend the rest of his life the way he...

Lindsey is blonde and beautiful and wants it all and more; she thinks she knows how to get everything if she plans just right. She knows how to make lists to help her every step of her successful life...but somehow, she is missing her ultimate happiness...searching for it could lead her to unexpectedly dark places.

Bella Edwards is a hot mess. Days away from turning 30, single, struggling to reconcile where she is with where she imagined she'd be by this point in her life, she has come to believe her entire future happiness is based on meeting 'The One'. After an unfortunate meeting with a fortune-teller, where it seems Bella's single fate is sealed, she sets off on a journey from London to New York, and then on a road trip across America to San Francisco, all with one clear objective - to find The One and prove the fortune-teller wrong....