Wreck
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Publishing:29th Jan '26
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 29th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
From the NYT bestselling author of WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS and SANDWICH.
'The kind of book that pulls up a chair, pours the wine, and dives deep—equal parts hilarious, sharp, and achingly sincere. It’s like spending hours with the friend who sees your mess and loves you more for it. I didn’t just read it—I felt known by it.' Alison Espach, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding People
'A delight... Newman's prose is laugh-out-loud funny. It's also profound. I didn't want it to end.' J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs
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Rocky, Nick, Willa and Jamie. A normal loving, anxious, messy, unpredictable, 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 what happens when ‘this could happen to us’ turns into ‘it really might be me’?
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. Even so, she is still living her best life as the irreverent, funny, unpredictably beating heart of her family. Her father is his unique, outspoken adorable self; her daughter Willa is prone to bouts of existential angst whilst berating the fact that her mother has zero filter; husband Nick is steady, logical, and sometimes infuriating.
But if accidents can happen – and they do – is it really 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.
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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...
Wreck is the kind of book that pulls up a chair, pours the wine, and dives deep—equal parts hilarious, sharp, and achingly sincere. It’s like spending hours with the friend who sees your mess and loves you more for it. I didn’t just read it—I felt known by it. A luminous, laugh-out-loud triumph by Newman. * Alison Espach, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding People *
Endorsing a new Catherine Newman novel feels a bit like endorsing puppies or chocolate cake. It's a new Catherine Newman novel. Of course you want to read it. Wreck is a delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family, the characters we all fell in love with in Sandwich. Newman's prose is laugh-out-loud funny. It's also profound. I underlined so many passages in this treasure of a novel. It brought about that conundrum that the best books always do: I couldn't stop reading, even though I didn't want it to end. * J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs *
ISBN: 9781529959697
Dimensions: 222mm x 138mm x 25mm
Weight: 400g
240 pages