From the NYT bestselling author of WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS and SANDWICH. ' 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
