Very Nearly Normal

From a dazzling new talent in women’s fiction, comes a swimmingly beautiful love story with a little twist in the tail.If you couldn’t get enough of the smash-hits Me Before You and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, then Very Nearly Normal is set to be your new obsession.“The people I know had been born normal and had remained so their whole lives. In fact, they would probably still fit perfectly into the mould that forged them. However, I wasn’t cast from the same mould. I hadn’t even seen it. I had been hand-sculpted by a half-witted amateur with a tremor.”Matilda ‘Effie’ Heaton knows that life has been against her from the moment she was born. The fact that her initials spell out ‘MEH’ – the universal term for anything uninspired and unexceptional – just says it all.Effie has always felt like she’s something of a misfit – that she’s always been anything but normal. So with the world against her, and everyone around her seeming to have the dream job, the dream apartment, and the dream bloody fiancé, Effie’s decided that she’s quite alright on her own.But then Theo walks into her life – a man who really shouldn’t like her. And yet, he does. His aim? To try and get Effie to see what life has to offer her. Because life isn’t just something that we can take for granted – a fact that Theo knows all too well.Because Theo has a life-changing secret, and just as Effie realises that she’s no longer falling apart and is now falling in love, it quickly becomes clear that life might have other things in store for her…A swimmingly beautiful love story with a little twist in the tail that fans of Jojo Moyes and Gail Honeyman will adore.