Today Will Be Different: From the bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Maria Semple

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Eleanor Flood knows she's a mess. But today will be different. Today she will shower and put on real clothes. She will attend her yoga class after dropping her son, Timby, off at school. She'll see an old friend for lunch. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action - life happens.

For today is the day Timby has decided to pretend to be ill to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day surgeon Joe has chosen to tell his receptionist - but not Eleanor - that he's on vacation. And just when it seems that things can't go more awry, a former colleague produces a relic from the past - a graphic memoir with pages telling of family secrets long buried and a sister to whom Eleanor never speaks.

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Praise for Today Will Be Different: From the bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

  • So unique, so smart, so funny, so beautifully humane, so utterly of our times, it's astonishingCoolly comic, sharply observant . . . [a] bleakly humorous study of how we live now - SUNDAY TIMESWith its sparky gags and quirky cast of characters, never has a meltdown been so entertaining - GLAMOURSmart, funny and original - GOOD HOUSKEEPINGCaptivating - GRAZIA

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Maria Semple

Maria Semple

Maria Semple is the bestselling author of Today Will Be Different, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, and This One Is Mine. Her novels have been translated into forty languages. Before writing fiction, Maria wrote for TV. She lives in New York.

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