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  • Published: 18 February 2020
  • ISBN: 9781405940078
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $26.00

Saturdays at Noon

An uplifting, emotional and unpredictable page-turner to make you smile




Three lives are about to change, whether they like it or not . . . A smart, gloriously feel-good debut for fans of David Nicholls and Jojo Moyes

Emily just wants to keep the world away.
After getting into trouble yet again, she's agreed to attend anger management classes. But she refuses to share her deepest secrets with a room full of strangers.

Jake just wants to keep his family together.
He'll do anything to save his marrriage and bond with his six-year-old son, Alfie. But when he's paired with spiky Emily, he wonders whether opening up will do more harm than good.

The two of them couldn't be more different. Yet when Alfie, who never likes strangers, meets Emily, something extraordinary happens.

Could one small boy change everything?

  • Published: 18 February 2020
  • ISBN: 9781405940078
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $26.00

About the author

Rachel Marks

Rachel Marks studied English at Exeter University before becoming a primary school teacher. Despite always loving to write, it wasn't until she gained a place on the 2016 Curtis Brown Creative online novel writing course that she started to believe it could be anything more than a much-loved hobby. She lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and their three children. Hello Stranger is her third novel.

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Praise for Saturdays at Noon

It's a beautiful love story, but not the one that you'd expect. Wonderful, hopeful and insightful. This book is an absolute gem and you'll find yourself willing Emily to get her happy ending

Asia Mackay

I loved this original, at times painful but truly thought-provoking book. A triumph

<i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author Katie Fforde

Wonderful . . . compassionate and unpredictable

Graeme Simsion, author of <i>The Rosie Project</i>

Touching, beautifully compassionate and warm; this is a lovely book, sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes funny. Perfect to curl up with and well worth a read

Dinah Jefferies

A sweet tale about second chances. Moving

Heat

Saturdays at Noon is one of those rare books that make you see the world in a different way... This is a satisfying, big-hearted book and a truly accomplished debut for Rachel Marks

WI Life Magazine

Sometimes a book comes along and really does make you think... This engaging read is both heart-breaking and full of hope

Woman & Home

Oh how I loved this book [...] complex, imperfect, totally loveable and completely unforgettable

Claire Pooley

Clever and engaging read. Heartbreaking and hopeful, this book is a keeper

Woman's Weekly

A heartbreaking, funny and emotive read

The Sun

An engaging read that shows how people, and children, can be misunderstood

Woman

Beautifully written. When I decided to read Saturdays at Noon I had no idea that not only would it very likely be one of my books of the year but it would also rock my world. A stunning and perfect read in every way.

NB

Funny, sharp, insightful and completely heart-rending

Beth Morrey, bestselling author of Saving Missy