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**Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022!**A COSMOPOLITAN, BBC, STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and GUARDIAN BEST BOOK PICK!’Astounding. Heart-breaking but hopeful, and a fresh new voice’ PANDORA SYKES’Moving and beautifully written’ LIBBY PAGE’A rare new talent’ THE GUARDIAN’A book that deserves to be a huge hit’ STYLIST’The literary equivalent of gold dust’ BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH***Sometimes it’s easy to fall between the cracks… At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she’s pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he’s useless. She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won’t understand. She really ought to tell Boy, but she hasn’t spoken to him in weeks. Bess knows more than anyone that love doesn’t come without conditions. But this isn’t a love story…

Don’t miss the new novel from the Women’s Prize longlisted author of Careless

‘An emotional rollercoaster’ GRAZIA

‘A rare new talent’ THE GUARDIAN‘

‘So real, and so very moving’ JESSICA RYN

‘A second heartfelt triumph’ ANSTEY HARRIS

Lucy Banbury is fine. Until she isn’t…

Lucy Banbury isn’t the sort of person that everyone gets along with – she’s prickly and secretive, and she likes things ordered ‘just so’. But things couldn’t be going better for her – she swims three times a week, she’s on the cusp of a huge promotion at work and she’s dating someone perfect on paper.

But when she discovers at a family wedding that she’s adopted, her whole world is shattered. Those cracks she’s taken years to plaster over are beginning to surface and she’s not sure how much longer she can keep all her secrets hidden, all whilst pretending to be someone she’s not…

Because how can you pretend to love your life, when nobody loves you?

Praise for Kirsty Capes:

‘Astounding. Heart-breaking but hopeful, and a fresh new voice‘ PANDORA SYKES

‘Moving and beautifully written’ LIBBY PAGE

‘Made me laugh and cry in equal measure’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

‘A book that deserves to be a huge hit‘ STYLIST

‘The literary equivalent of gold dust’ BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH

‘An incredible debut novel. Kirsty Capes is one to watch’ RED

‘A powerful coming-of-age debut’ MARIE CLAIRE

‘Vigorous and insightful’ DAILY MAIL

Don’t miss the new novel from the Women’s Prize longlisted author of Careless’An emotional rollercoaster’ GRAZIA’A rare new talent’ THE GUARDIAN”So real, and so very moving’ JESSICA RYN’A second heartfelt triumph’ ANSTEY HARRISLucy Banbury is fine. Until she isn’t… Lucy Banbury isn’t the sort of person that everyone gets along with – she’s prickly and secretive, and she likes things ordered ‘just so’. But things couldn’t be going better for her – she swims three times a week, she’s on the cusp of a huge promotion at work and she’s dating someone perfect on paper. But when she discovers at a family wedding that she’s adopted, her whole world is shattered. Those cracks she’s taken years to plaster over are beginning to surface and she’s not sure how much longer she can keep all her secrets hidden, all whilst pretending to be someone she’s not… Because how can you pretend to love your life, when nobody loves you?Praise for Kirsty Capes:’Astounding. Heart-breaking but hopeful, and a fresh new voice’ PANDORA SYKES’Moving and beautifully written’ LIBBY PAGE’Made me laugh and cry in equal measure’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING’A book that deserves to be a huge hit’ STYLIST’The literary equivalent of gold dust’ BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH’An incredible debut novel. Kirsty Capes is one to watch’ RED’A powerful coming-of-age debut’ MARIE CLAIRE’Vigorous and insightful’ DAILY MAIL