'The best thing you'll read this year' KILEY REID 'So beautiful' SARAH JESSICA PARKER 'One of
those books I will read again and again' JOJO MOYES 'Very funny very touching ' DAVID
NICHOLLS 'Moving absorbing evocative' SARA COLLINS 'Wonderful ... Compelling ... Very
funny' MARINA HYDE 'I devoured it.. Exquisitely written poignant and funny ' FEARNE COTTON
A crackling comical tender and highly original novel about mental health the certainties of
medicine buried trauma love death and time lost in the crushing - and comical - hopes of
modern life _______________________________________________________ Vita Woods is on the
brink. She has a good job and a successful doctor boyfriend Max with whom the sex is great
and the chat sufficient a vivacious and charming sister Gracie her verbal sparring partner
and best friend for life and she's even got a goldfish called Whitney Houston who brightens
her days by showing her she's not the only one going round in circles. Because it's the days
that are Vita's problem. Vita is not leaving the house. In fact Vita rarely exits the basement
apartment where she lives since Vita is in "The Pit" - a place of deep exhaustion and
semi-consciousness where she spends much of her time dead to the world and to herself. She has
been sick for months with an illness that no doctor not even Max can medically diagnose.
One day an unexpected courier delivery forces Vita upstairs into the light - and into a chance
encounter with her neighbours upstairs. Suddenly Vita finds herself faced with an even
trickier dilemma. She likes her new friends she'll even sneak upstairs to see them while Max
is out against all medical advice but something about her "condition" is nagging at the
borders of her mind. After all what is a house-bound girl to do when she can't keep the light
her new friendships or - worst of all - her memories out? The problem might be Vita herself
but as far as anyone can prove... there's nothing wrong with her. 'Encompasses so many
things: a whole life - sorrows damage hopes' RICHARD CURTIS 'Surreal magical totally
original' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Deep and dark and beautiful' ESTHER FREUD PRAISE FOR KATE
WEINBERG AND THE TRUANTS 'One of the standout books of the summer' Stylist 'Magical in every
way . . . One of the best novels I've ever read' Fearne Cotton 'As much a coming-of-age tale
as a murder mystery . . . An impressive debut' The Times
