Effieโs not perfect. Neither is Theo. But together, theyโre pretty close.
Matilda โEffieโ Heaton has always felt like sheโs swimming against the tide. Everyone around her has life sorted, but Effieโs living with her parents and crying into a wine bottle at night. The only thing she loves is her job at a bookshop, where she can lose herself in other peopleโs stories.
But then she meets Theo, who knows only too well that life isnโt something to take for granted.
Because Theo has a life-changing secret, and as Effie starts to realise that sheโs falling in love instead of falling apart, fate steps in and deals her a new hand. And this time, the stakes are high.
A gorgeous, heart-breaking read for fans of Jojo Moyes and Gail Honeyman. If you love this, donโt miss Hannah Sunderlandโs new book, At First Sight.
What readers are saying about Very Nearly Normal...โI havenโt been able to put it down ...a rollercoaster of emotionsโ ***** Reader Review
โI loved it from page one and every page after that I loved it moreโ ***** Reader Review
โMade me laugh and smile, but also cry for the real struggles Effie and Theo facedโ ***** Reader Review
โLife-affirming, funny and relatable. A twist I didnโt see comingโ ***** Reader Review
Hannah Sunderland was born and bred in Sutton Coldfield, north of Birmingham, where she still lives with her menagerie of animals. She has a BA Hons degree in Fine Art and now runs her own business, a company that makes props for crime scene reconstruction.
She inherited the writing gene from her father. She has an obsessional love of stationery, cats and Sour Patch Kids. The writing bug set in when someone handed her a notebook and she realised that she could create a world within it. Her claim to fame is playing Tree #4 in her year one school play.