THE NYT bestseller from the adored author of WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS and SANDWICH. ''Beautiful, funny, wry, relatable and upliftin g ...I LOVE [Catherine Newman''s] work, it''s so clever and comforting and the antidote to these times.'' MARIAN KEYES '' The kind of book that pulls up a chair, pours the wine, and dives deep... like spending hours with the friend who sees your mess and loves you more for it. '' Alison Espach, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding People ''Gorgeously human, tender-hearted, and delightfully funny '' Nussaibah Younis, bestselling author of Fundamentally '' A heartbreaking, laugh-provoking, and absolutely Ephron-esque look at the beauty and fragility of everyday life .'' Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ''I nfectiously funny and surprisingly moving , Wreck reminds us that we are each, in our way, trying to make sense of the big things with some very small tools'' Rachel Joyce, bestselling author of The Homemade God _______ Rocky, Nick, Willa and Jamie. A normal loving, anxious, messy, unpredictable, relatable, family. Rocky has her own her way of processing disasters: 1. This could happen to us. 2. This couldn''t happen to us. And then there''s a secret third column: ''This could happen to us unless I am very careful/ superstitious/ grateful...'' So what happens when ''this could happen to us'' turns into ''it really might be me ''? When a former classmate of Jamie''s dies in a seemingly random accident, Rocky becomes obsessed. She''s also developed a niggling medical condition that won''t go away. Even so, she is still living her best life as the irreverent, funny, unpredictably beating heart of her family. Her father is his unique, outspoken adorable self; her daughter Willa is prone to bouts of existential angst whilst berating the fact that her mother has zero filter; husband Nick is steady, logical, and sometimes infuriating. But if accidents can happen - and they do - is it really safe to love anyone? Laugh out loud funny and deeply emotional, WRECK follows Rocky and her family through one rollercoaster year as they share the unpredictable, beautiful messiness of life. _______ PRAISE FOR SANDWICH & WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS: ''Breezy New York Nora-Ephron-style wit meets hospice memoir to create something profoundly beautiful...comforting, so funny, moving but never mawkish and packed with all kinds of love. It''s one of my favourite books ever'' bestselling author, MARIAN KEYES '' One of the funniest books I''ve ever read'' FEARNE COTTON, STYLIST '' I adored this book . Jubilant, devastating, tender, heartbreaking, I found myself both in tears and ''snorty-laughing''. A masterclass on friendship, family love, memory, and the messiness of life and love and dying. Pure genius'' RACHEL JOYCE, author of the bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ''Tragically funny , with moments of clarity and wisdom , Newman writes loss and laughter in equally brilliant amounts'' BONNIE GARMUS, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry ''Newman is truly a master of taking complex and chaotic human emotion and making sense of it ... wise and exquisitely written'' GUARDIAN '' Sandwich is joy in book form . I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life.'' ANN PATCHETT, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake ...

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Catherine Newman is the New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and We All Want Impossible Things, which was also chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club. She is also the author of the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, and the bestselling children's book How to be a Person. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Cup of Jo, and many other publications. She writes the Substack newsletter Crone Sandwich and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family.

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The NEW YORK TIMES bestseller. A wonderful novel full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family and what happens when life doesn't go as planned...

'The kind of book that pulls up a chair, pours the wine, and dives deep... like spending hours with the friend who sees your mess and loves you more for it.' ALISON ESPACH, author of The Wedding People

'I LOVE her work... the antidote to these times' MARIAN KEYES

'A gorgeously human, tender-hearted, and delightfully funny exploration of the anxieties that beset all of us, and the loving relationships and irrepressible joy that gets us through' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS, author of Fundamentally

Rachel (Rocky) is seemingly living her best life as the irreverent, funny beating heart of her family. Her ageing father is his unique, adorable self; daughter Willa is prone to bouts of existential angst whilst berating the fact that her mother has zero filter; husband Nick is steady, logical, sometimes infuriating.

They are messy, they are flawed, they are completely, ridiculously normal.

And like most normal people, Rocky worries about what might happen next. So when a former classmate of her son Jamie dies in a seemingly random accident, Rocky becomes obsessed.

For if accidents can happen - and they do - is it truly safe to love anyone?

Fresh, honest, laugh out loud funny and genuinely relatable, WRECK follows Rocky and her family through one rollercoaster year as they negotiate the unpredictable and beautiful messiness of life.

**Readers say:

'Wreck feels like Newman was writing directly to me. And what's so impressive is, I think many, many, many readers will feel like it was just for them too.'

'Feels like meeting up with old friends'

'It's like Catherine Newman knows exactly how I feel'**

**'I feel seen every time I read [Catherine Newman's] words'

'There is just some kind of magic in Catherine Newman's writing that makes me want to dog-ear every page'

Reviews say:**

**'Hugely enjoyable, absolutely real and thoughtful...Newman has an Ephron-esque gift for blending the sharp and the sad and an ability to let us love her creations.' Observer

'Darkly funny, achingly emotional' Woman & Home

'Insightful and totally relatable' Good Housekeeping

'The new queen of the bittersweet novel' Independent**