Kit de Waal The Best of Everything

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The unforgettable and gorgeously redemptive new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of My Name is Leon and The Best of Everything

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Description: Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 10 Apr 2025
Paulette's the kind of woman who likes the future all mapped out: the wedding to Denton, the Caribbean honeymoon, the gingham quilt on the baby's crib. Until one morning Garfield, Denton's friend, arrives at her door with the news that Denton won't be coming around any more, that there won't be time for her to say goodbye.

Somehow Garfield finds his way into her bed, and sooner than anyone can believe there is a baby, and suddenly giving Bird, her son, the best of everything is what gives Paulette's life meaning.

So why is it another little boy, Nellie, who keeps Paulette awake at night? Nellie who is being raised a few streets away, with no sign of a mum. Surely Paulette is the last person who should be getting tangled up in any of that?

The Best of Everything is a novel about the love that can steal into our lives - in spite of the best laid plans.
About the Author: Kit de Waal is the author of MY NAME IS LEON, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, THE TRICK TO TIME, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a short story collection, SUPPORTING CAST, and a memoir, WITHOUT WARNING & ONLY SOMETIMES, which was shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. She is also editor of the COMMON PEOPLE anthology. MY NAME IS LEON was recently adapted as a film for BBC Two.
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This is a book of such tenderness, full of pain, grief and despair and yet playful and joyful at the same time. Kit de Waal has an uncanny ability to create vivid characters with such empathy that I want to reach into the pages to hug them. I truly loved this book -- Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond
What a wonderful novel, bursting with life. Kit de Waal is a writer who knows all the secret longings of the human heart -- Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Ordinary Time
Beautiful. De Waal has the power to astound, to lift and console, to make life with her sentences -- Donal Ryan, author of The Queen of Dirt Island
A profoundly compassionate novel of devastating power and emotional complexity -- Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
So deeply moving. Sad and beautiful and true -- Annie MacManus, author of The Mess We're In
Everything de Waal has written pulls at the heartstrings... tenderly explores how to build a life of meaning * I-Paper *
I love the characters that de Waal creates on the page, and I cannot wait to meet the new ones in this book -- Nina Pottell * Prima *
This is a book of such tenderness, full of pain, grief and despair and yet playful and joyful at the same time. Kit de Waal has an uncanny ability to create vivid characters with such empathy that I want to reach into the pages to hug them. I truly loved this book -- Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond
What a wonderful novel, bursting with life. Kit de Waal is a writer who knows all the secret longings of the human heart -- Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Ordinary Time
Beautiful. De Waal has the power to astound, to lift and console, to make life with her sentences -- Donal Ryan, author of The Queen of Dirt Island
A profoundly compassionate novel of devastating power and emotional complexity -- Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
So deeply moving. Sad and beautiful and true -- Annie MacManus, author of The Mess We're In
Everything de Waal has written pulls at the heartstrings... tenderly explores how to build a life of meaning * I-Paper *
I love the characters that de Waal creates on the page, and I cannot wait to meet the new ones in this book -- Nina Pottell * Prima *

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