My Brilliant Friend

When Nina's quiet, bookish life is upturned by the family she never knew she had, she finds herself on a journey to discover if real life can ever live up to fiction.

'The literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler' Observer 'A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory' Madeline Miller 'Should appeal to fans of Maria Semple, Emma Straub and Jennifer Egan' Sunday Times 'The perfect, engrossing holiday read' Red

Assured of hitting the bestseller lists' THE PARISIAN' A lovely, moving first novel, a cri de coeur against the condition of women in this world' MARIE FRANCE 'The Mad Women's Ball is as lush on the inside as it is on the outside! It's richly immersive, taking us right into the heart of nineteenth-century Paris.' SHELLEY HARRIS, author of the Sunday Times bestseller JUBILEE