We All Want Impossible Things

No one knows you like your best friend...From the New York Times bestselling author, the powerful Richard & Judy Book Club pick

Gorgeously tender and so deeply loving NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS, bestselling author of Fundamentally

Nora-Ephron-style wit... one of my favourite books ever MARIAN KEYES

Newman writes loss and laughter in equally brilliant amounts.BONNIE GARMUS

Dazzling, heart-wrenching, snorty-hilarious. RACHEL JOYCE
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Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your strange imperfect self?

Edi and Ash have been best friends for over forty years. Since childhood they have seen each other through lifes milestones: stealing vodka from their parents, REM concerts, marriages, infertility, children. As Ash notes, Edis memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine.

So when Edi is diagnosed with cancer, Ashs world reshapes around the rhythms of Edis care, from making watermelon ice cubes and music therapy to snack smuggling and impromptu excursions into the frozen winter night.

Because life is about squeezing the joy out of every moment and building a powerhouse of memories, about learning when to hold on, and when to let go.

Deeply moving yet laugh-out-loud funny, We All Want Impossible Things is a jubilant celebration of life and friendship at its imperfect, radiant, and irreverent best.

To read more by CATHERINE NEWMAN, discover the NYT bestseller, SANDWICH, and her new novel WRECK: Beautiful, funny, wry, relatable and uplifting… I LOVE her workMarian Keyes
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Praise for We All Want Impossible Things:

A beautiful, candid and uplifting testament to female friendship that will make you laugh and cryWOMAN & HOME

This tale of love and friendship is a tender, funny, life-affirming joyMARIE CLAIRE, Best Books of 2023

Devastatingly funny ... handled with compassion and courage in elegant prose lightened by honest humourMAIL ON SUNDAY

A treatTHE SUNDAY TIMES

Remarkable ... A whip-smart, funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely characterised novelOBSERVER

Utterly life-affirming and joyfulRED

One of the best novels on friendship Ive ever read AJ PEARCE

An absolute masterpiece in characterisation... utterly beautiful. JOANNA CANNON

From the bestselling author of We All Want Impossible Things and Wreck, a brilliant funny, astute and emotionally relatable novel about family and how change it changes over time

‘Sandwich is joy in book form.’ ANN PATCHETT

Engaging, frank, funny and movingDaily Mail

‘You’ll be screenshotting paragraphs of this heartbreakingly honest novel to send to your friends’Real Simple

‘A protagonist like Rocky is so necessary, because a whole generation will now be able to read this wise and exquisitely written story and say I know how you feel.’ Guardian

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One week by the beach in their favourite spot, the perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong?

For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape.

The humble, quirky beach house they rent has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, shared mishaps and memories. It is a place where her family comes together and Rocky wants to cling to every moment.

Now, sandwiched between her children who are adult enough to be fun but still young enough to need her, and her parents who are ageing but healthy, Rocky wants to preserve this precious mome...