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From the author of The Summer Job comes a laugh-out-loud, heartwarming story about one woman’s impulsive fib that jump starts a summer of reinvention and learning about love, life, and what it means to accept yourself. She has a plan. Fate has other ideas. The last place very average...

Charlotte Thomas is polite. Manners cost nothing, her mother always said…yet there’s a fine line between diplomat and doormat. But every woman has their breaking point and Charlotte has just found hers. With the help of her best friend and housemate Mush, that night she declares 365 days of not saying sorry. No more apologies for just doing her job, or speaking her mind or simply taking up space. It seems easy. Until she finds herself sacked, single and dare she say it…sorry she even started this.

One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023 “Eliza Clark’s writing embraces the socially unacceptable and wryly explores themes of gender, power, and violence.”—Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023 “Chilling, clever, and unputdownable.”—Guardian From the author...

As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is fraught with peril and hardship. There is very little to eat and the population lives under the constant threat of arrest and enslavement. After the murder of her beloved uncle and the capture of her brother by the Germans, Edda is determined to do anything she can to help the resistance fight back against their oppressors. But what can a teenage girl do and how much risk is she willing to take?