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I Love the Whole World!
  • Published: 11 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761359934
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 240

I Love the Whole World!

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11 Aug 2026
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11 Aug 2026
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11 Aug 2026
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'Hannan’s writing glitters and fizzes and leaves the reader with an afterglow.'
KATE MILDENHALL

When Leslie McDonald wins a trip to Las Vegas, an absurd holiday becomes a pilgrimage; one that leads her back to joy, back to herself, and to the astonishing realisation that her life still belongs to her.

Leslie had felt for some time that life was a series of things that just happened to her. When her physiotherapist husband dumps her for a woman with superior posture, she finds herself lost without a map.

A ticket out of her misery comes in the form of an all-expenses paid trip to the bright lights of Las Vegas.

Wonder, Leslie discovers, can be found in the most unexpected of places. Soon she falls in love with the beauty of the desert, its art and its people – and finds her way back to herself.

I Love the Whole World! is a celebration of life and self. Hilarious, joyous and beautifully observed, it is a novel about friendship, ageing and the extra/ordinary act of deciding to begin again.
  • Published: 11 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761359934
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 240
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About the author

Victoria Hannan

Victoria Hannan is a photographer and writer who lives in Melbourne/Naarm. Her previous novels are Kokomo and Marshmallow.
portrait photo of Victoria Hannan

Praise for I Love the Whole World!

I Love the Whole World! is the kind of book you lovingly dog-ear and re-read and push into the hands of all your friends, insisting they must read it immediately. Leslie McDonald is the unexpectedly joyous hero you need right now: finding pleasure and awe in new adventures, desert art and plates of Las Vegas breakfast pancakes. Victoria Hannan’s writing glitters and fizzes and leaves the reader with an afterglow. This is a book to come alive to.

Kate Mildenhall