Why read Weak Teeth?

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'[A] warm and witty exploration of our hidden vulnerabilities' - Catherine Simpson

Ellis's life has crumbled without warning. Her boyfriend has fallen in love with someone else, her job's insecure, her bank account's empty and she has a mouthful of unreliable teeth. Forced back to her childhood home, there is…

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1 author picked Weak Teeth as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Lucy Ribchester

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I’ve read Weak Teeth twice now, as I was lucky enough to read it in its proof stage as well. It’s an anti-love story about Ellis, an Edinburgh girl, which opens with her long-term partner cheating on her before chucking her out of their shared flat.

Sounds depressing? But in the hands of Lynsey May, it becomes a bleakly, blackly hilarious, razor-sharp dissection of human relationships, along with a beautifully rich exploration of family and what it means to be strong in life.

The characters are so utterly identifiable, from Ellis’s poison-tongued but ferociously loyal big sister to her wet…

From Lucy's 3 favorite reads in 2023.