Winner of the Book of the Year (Fiction) at the British Book Awards Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 'Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know.' -- Ann Patchett The internationally bestselling, compulsively readable novel--a work of spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark comedy that combines the psychological insight of Sally Rooney with the sharp humor of Nina Stibbe and the emotional resonance of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Martha Friel just turned forty. She used to work at Vogue and was going to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content for no one. She used to live in Paris. Now, she lives in a gated community in Oxford that she hates and can't bear to leave. But she must now that her loving husband Patrick has just left. Because there's something wrong with Martha. There has been for a long time, an unnamed