Very Nearly Normal

‘Delightfully romantic’ ISABELLE BROOM
‘A compelling, quirky love story’ MIRANDA DICKINSON

Effie’s not perfect. Neither is Theo. But together, they’re pretty close.
 
Matilda ‘Effie’ Heaton has always felt like she’s swimming against the tide. Everyone around her has life sorted, but Effie’s living with her parents and crying into a wine bottle at night. The only thing she loves is her job at a bookshop, where she can lose herself in other people’s stories.
 
But then she meets Theo, who knows only too well that life isn’t something to take for granted.
 
Because Theo has a life-changing secret, and as Effie starts to realise that she’s falling in love instead of falling apart, fate steps in and deals her a new hand. And this time, the stakes are high.

A gorgeous, heart-breaking read for fans of Jojo Moyes and Gail Honeyman.

• Avon’s key focus title for summer 2020, Very Nearly Normal will have a huge, nationwide campaign to back it, ensuring that it is the next must-have book on everyone’s reading list.

• Playing into key trends, this book is a rare gem: full of romance, humour but also heartbreak, it will hold you in its spell until the very last, heart-wrenching page.

• No one can forget what Jojo Moyes did to the book world in 2012, whilst the impact of Gail Honeyman’s incredible triumph of 2017 continues to this very day. So for 2020 comes Very Nearly Normal – a book which can best be described as Me Before You meets Eleanor Oliphant: a swimmingly beautiful love story with a little twist in the tail.

• Hannah Sunderland is a remarkable new talent in women’s fiction, whose writing will make you laugh as much as it will make you cry, as she plumbs the emotional depths of life in modern-day Britain.

• Hannah lives in Birmingham where she runs her own company creating props for crime scene reconstructions.

Competition: Me Before You, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, The Man Who Didn’t Call. Jojo Moyes, Gail Honeyman, Mhairi McFarlane, Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella, Rosie Walsh, Graeme Simsion, Dawn French, Giovanna Fletcher, Jill Mansell, Jenny Colgan, Jenny Eclair, Cecelia Ahern, Paige Toon, Beth O’Leary