There’s Nothing Wrong With Her

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Bloomsbury presents There’s Nothing Wrong With Her by Kate Weinberg, read by Louiza Patikas.

‘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
‘Moving, absorbing, evocative’ SARA COLLINS
‘Wonderful ... Compelling ... Very funny’ MARINA HYDE

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

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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

Critics Review

Kate Weinberg writes with prose so exquisite that I kept copying bits to show people. There’s Nothing Wrong With Her is so beautifully perceptive and forensically observed; she writes about the complexities of human relationships in a way that stops me in my tracks. One of those books I will read again and again

JOJO MOYES

A hallucinatory, amazingly capacious novel … It’s a testament to Weinberg’s writing that I wouldn’t have minded staying in her feverish world for longer

Daily Telegraph

A funny, philosophical novel that perfectly captures the surreal state of invisible illness … Remarkable

independent.co.uk

An almost dreamlike story of a young woman felled by an unnamed illness, and the shrunken world of neighbours and relationships around her … Weinberg’s observations about relationships are forensic and quietly devastating

OBSERVER Summer reading

Wonderful … Compelling … Very funny

MARINA HYDE

A sensitive, astute, funny study of the powerful intersection between body and mind

MARIE CLAIRE

I sped through it. It’s deep and dark and beautifull

ESTHER FREUD

It’s moving, absorbing, evocative – such a thoughtful exploration of the traps of grief and chronic illness. Beautifully conjured, with shades of The Yellow Wallpaper, but brilliantly modernised

SARA COLLINS

This fresh, authentic novel stops you in your tracks and makes you reflect on life. As you become deeply invested in Vita’s road to recovery, you may find yourself considering what’s holding you back from being the fullest, messiest, most aIive version of yourself, too. A smart, significant read

HEAT

An original and enchanting read

STRONG WORDS

Slim in size but vast in emotional impact, Kate Weinberg’s novel explores the landscape of one woman’s life – her heart, her family, her pain and her desires. A work of dazzling bravery

JENNY JACKSON

A compelling commentary on mental health

WOMAN & HOME

It’s so beautiful. And so painful. And so gorgeously descriptive of a devastating chapter that so many of us just don’t know or understand even, with all compassion

SARAH JESSICA PARKER

Surreal, magical, and totally original, this beautiful novel provides a powerful insight into a world and experience that science is struggling to explain or navigate. Luminous

SATHNAM SANGHERA

Funny and painfully true. A book of revelations. This is a beautiful capture of what it means to live with a chronic illness. The best thing you’ll read this year

KILEY REID

A really wonderful piece of work: so fresh. It encompasses so many things: a whole life – sorrows, damage, hopes

RICHARD CURTIS

I’ve never read anything like it. A brilliant mass of contradictions… It’s light and dark, funny and moving, soulful and sexy, quirky and important. A delight and an education on every page

EMMA FREUD

Long Covid is not the obvious subject for a quirky almost-romcom but Kate Weinberg pulls it off triumphantly. Touching, funny, inventive, There’s Nothing Wrong With Her is a beguiling story about illness and faith and the power of love In all its forms. I devoured it in a single greedy sitting.

CLARE CLARK

An inventive, witty and questioning novel

SAGA

A tender, curious, and undeniably urgent exploration of the many modern challenges to women’s health and happiness. As compassionate as it is incisive, Weinberg’s latest makes a persuasive case for the saving graces of our imaginative inner worlds

M L RIO

This painfully funny novel sizzles with love and desire, isolation and loss, and the incongruous breakthroughs that take place when one has little left to lose

ELIZABETH McKENZIE

This novel may delve into The Pit (of ill health, of grief, of despair), but it never feels less than buoyant. Weinberg has found a way to write about chronic illness and pain with great wit, creativity, and verve. I loved every page of this short novel and hated to leave its vibrant characters behind

LAURA SIMS

Praise for The Truants: Marks Weinberg out as a natural storyteller, in the vein of Agatha Christie herself. Startling

IRISH TIMES

With deft characterisation, plenty of mystery and twists in the tale, it had me gripped

DAILY MAIL

As much a coming-of-age tale as a murder mystery . . . An impressive debut

THE TIMES

Smart and exciting and funny and mysterious

DAWN O'PORTER

Like a wickedly brilliant Donna Tartt, Agatha Christie and Liane Moriarty all mixed into one

SCARLETT CURTIS

Weinberg’s debut is a page-turning tale of love, death and betrayal on a university campus that riffs on Donna Tartt’s The Secret History while exerting a subtle pull of its own

I PAPER, Books of the Year

After surprising twists, Kate Weinberg provides a satisfying conclusion while asking the question: does a mystery lose its magic once it’s solved?

GUARDIAN

Think The Secret History meets Agatha Christie

RED

A must read for fans of mystery novels … Cleverly written and relentlessly intriguing, The Truants is the perfect novel for inquisitive minds to escape into

MARIE CLAIRE

In this mesmerising debut, Kate Weinberg confidently combines literary suspense and deftly executed narrative, slowly unravelling a tangled tale about first love, obsession and the boundaries of self-identity . . . A riveting read

SCOTSMAN

This satisfying coming-of-age novel jives to a thriller-like beat. It’s a debut, though you wouldn’t necessarily know it from its assured tone. While Donna Tartt’s The Secret History is a clear influence, it’s Agatha Christie whose work is most explicitly referenced, stoking an ominous sense of impending calamity

MAIL ON SUNDAY

There’s Nothing Wrong with Her is the rarest of reads: unflinchingly honest, wryly funny, and incredibly tender in the moments between. Vita and her eccentric crew are companions we could all use on our toughest days

LEANNE TOSHIKO SIMPSON, author of Never Been Better

Gloriously original, funny, and frighteningly observant, reading Kate Weinberg’s There’s Nothing Wrong with Her is like reading your brain turned inside out and seeing all the chaos that goes inside, as written by an author with an astuteness and clarity of voice that is captivating and entirely brilliant. I loved it!

ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS, author of The Three of Us

Your new commuter read … A page turner

SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

The acclaimed author of The Truants is coming out with a darkly funny novel about a woman dealing with some kind of illness no doctor has been able to diagnose

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