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  • Published: 18 January 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405964296
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00

Nothing Serious





A blistering and gripping novel about two women who meet online through a catfish, and end up forming a very unlikely connection . . .

Nicki - 30ish, care worker living in Brighton - is scrolling for her next hook up. A difficult home life, a job that's going nowhere, she seeks solace in random encounters.

Amber - 17, college student, lost - desperately needs someone to notice her. She creates 'Kevin', a fake dating profile for a man in his thirties.
Neither Nicki nor 'Kevin' has any idea what they're about to get into.

They quickly match, and an unlikely friendship develops, giving each other the validation they both sorely need.

But can you ever truly connect when one of you is a liar?

  • Published: 18 January 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405964296
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00

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Praise for Nothing Serious

WHAT. A. BOOK. I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it before, I was utterly gripped from the first page. I loved Emma's characters, they felt real and balanced, flawed and relatable. Such a perfectly relevant read, and one that I think people will be talking about/thinking over for a long time after they finish reading

Lisa Hall, bestselling author of <i>Between You and Me</i>

An emotive insight into the consequences of bruising loneliness, Nothing Serious is a powerful tale of a skewed but hopeful friendship through which two very different women find the courage to survive

Amy Beashel, author of <i>Spilt Milk</i>

A searing exploration into the shape of loneliness and how far we'll go to create connections

Heather Darwent, <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Things We Do To Our Friends</i>

Sharp, sublime, and achingly hopeful. Nothing Serious takes an honest and heartfelt look at loneliness and longing, friendship and survival. I loved it

Chris Whitaker, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>We Begin at the End</i>

Magnetic, raw and powerful, this is a compulsive novel about loneliness and connection that will stay with me a long time

Katie Lumsden, author of <i>The Secrets of Hartwood Hall</i>

A thought-provoking, quietly devastating novel about loneliness and what people will do to belong

Red, 'Best Books of January 2024'

Always emotionally intelligent and thought-provoking. Raw and compelling

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