When You Read This: 'Deeply moving but also uplifting, Mary Adkins' debut novel is easy to read but hard to forget' - Anne Youngson

A touching, funny, and life-affirming tale - Publishers WeeklyMary has pulled off the trick of being both funny (every office should have Carl as an intern) while dealing, seriously, with serious subjects . . . deeply moving but also upliftingAs with Maria Semple's mixed-media masterwork Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Adkins's debut novel is so much more than its clever style . . . WHEN YOU READ THIS feels miraculous and leaves a lasting impression long after its final moment.This inventive and hilarious novel has it all: Mid-life crisis sufferers denying their regrets, a lawless intern with alarming email etiquette, poetic online therapists and a moving message about the resiliency of the human heart. Read this book-I loved it!A remarkable new take on the epistolary novel, WHEN YOU READ THIS manages to thread the finest of needles: a book about a young woman who died of cancer that is neither maudlin nor sentimental, but rather, clear-eyed and poignant. One of the more memorable books I've read this yearWarm, original, funny and heartbreaking, this novel made me drop everything so I could read it in one lovely afternoon. I adored itThis gentle tragicomedy unfolds in a series of text messages, blog posts and emails . . . while dealing sensitively with loss - Daily MailWhen You Read This checks all the essential boxes of Up Lit - though-provoking, tear-jerking, funny- and adds a delectable epistolary twist. - Refinery29