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Is That You, Beth Cherry?: the warm and witty new novel from the author of Irresponsible Adult

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Beth's life, like the unfinished manuscript on her laptop, is stuck.

Since her devastating breakup with Fraser she's retreated into a lonely working-from-home world of sweatpants, disordered timekeeping and comfort eating. The one luminous constant in her life is her love for her rescue dog, Tomsk, and his for her.

When her house share falls apart, she is thrown a lifeline by the least likely person: Fraser's mother Martine, who offers Beth and Tomsk a temporary space above her garage in which to start over.

But Martine's favours always come at a price: she's volunteered a reluctant Beth as a writer for a project called The Story of Your Life, run by the local retirement community. Some of the stories Beth hears are heartwarming, some are heartbreaking, and some even make her question her own past relationships.

All of them, she notes, reveal a little more than the teller realises...

When she is sent an anonymous story of first love that threatens to destroy more than one family's identity, Beth faces an impossible decision, and ultimately must choose:

Is she in charge of her own story? Or will she let someone else write her last chapter.

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Praise for Is That You, Beth Cherry?

  • So good! Warm and funny, and I was rooting for Robyn from the very first pageFunny, perceptive and oh-so-relatable, Robyn's reluctant mission to clean up her world is full of laughs and also some heart-twisting surprisesA funny, relatable read with some surprise twists - STYLIST

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Lucy Dillon

Lucy Dillon

Lucy Dillon grew up by the seaside in Cumbria, and read English at Cambridge University, before working as a fiction editor. She is the best-selling author of eleven novels set in the market town of Longhampton, including Romantic Novelists Association Novels of the Year Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts and A Hundred Pieces of Me. An enthusiastic collector of dog-related junk, Lucy lives in Herefordshire with an English Otterhound, a Welsh Pembroke Corgi and a Scottish Husband.

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