Hailed as 'Patrick Melrose meets Fleabag', Meg Mason's achingly funny and heartbreakingly tender novel is one of the most talked-about novels of 2021.

Martha Friel is clever, beautiful and funny, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. So why is she now friendless, practically jobless and broken? And why did Patrick decide to leave?

Now Martha, with the help of her devoted, wise-cracking sister, and dysfunctional, bohemian parents, has one last chance to find out whether she can write a better ending for herself.

Today: as her husband leaves her, Martha looks back on her bohemian childhood and the bomb that went off in her teenage brain...