Square One
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  • Published: 29 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804990858
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00

Square One

A brilliantly bold and sharply funny debut from the author of The Panic Years

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29 Aug 2023
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7 Jul 2022
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7 Jul 2022
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The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the influential author of The Panic Years, about a woman whose life has gone back to...square one.

'Electrifyingly good...sharply comic and perfectly poignant' Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable

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Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna

By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it)

· A fulfilling and successful career

· A healthy, long-term relationship, maybe even an engagement ring

· A house (or at least a flat) of her own

But in reality, she's back at square one...

· Single after breaking up with someone she's not sure ever loved her

· Flooded with wedding invitations and pregnancy scan pictures from friends

· Unable to afford to live on her own and forced to move in with her father who is also single and dating

Everyone moves at different paces, but Hanna's life is in reverse. With the pressure to keep up and her dad's insufferable musings on Tinder, will she be able to figure out what she really wants?
  • Published: 29 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804990858
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Nell Frizzell

Nell Frizzell is a journalist, writer and Vogue columnist. She has written for The Guardian, VICE, The Telegraph, Elle, The Observer, Grazia, I-D among many others. Her first book The Panic Years is an exploration of bodies, babies and the big questions facing modern life.

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Praise for Square One

Electrifyingly good...sharply comic and perfectly poignant

Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable

A fresh, funny novel filled with truths about relationships and perfect details. I tore though it

Amy Liptrot

A funny and charming novel full of fresh observations, tenderness and hope

Katy Wix, author of Delicacy and star of Stath Lets Flats and Ghosts

Keenly observed and hecking funny, this is a book for our times

Red

The #HOTMESS manifesto... a relatable story about a slow-mo car crash of early 30s.

Evening Standard

Witty and heart-warming, we couldn't put this book down

Closer

A smart and witty portrait of modern female relationships

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