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A Times Best Fiction Book of the Year
A Guardian Best Fiction Book of the Year
A BBC Culture Book of the Year
'IT'LL EASILY BE ONE OF MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR' Hannah Beckerman

'It's a warm book and a touching one. And did I mention it's funny? Just…

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2 authors picked I’m Sorry You Feel That Way as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Although mental health, challenging family dynamics and sibling relationships are widely explored in fiction, there's something unique about this novel. I loved the humour and how the author uses it to highlight serious matters without trivialising them. It's hilarious, yet completely credible; tragic, yet hopeful; and moving without being overly sentimental.

Yet more dysfunctional families and tormented sibling relationships, but this book is funny as well as clever, and I loved the fractured relationships between Alice and Hanna, twins who have always been saint and sinner. Now the two women are adults, nothing has turned out as they expected in their lives and they struggle with each other as well as with their domineering mother and critical older brother. Some great family tension and well-written dialogue, and despite the subject matter, this isn’t a book that will leave you down-hearted.

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