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Cherry Baby
  • Published: 14 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241688434
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $34.99
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Cherry Baby

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Tr. Paperback
14 Apr 2026
Audiobook
16 Apr 2026
Hardback
16 May 2026
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From the million-copy internationally bestselling author comes a new adult novel about a woman who must choose between the one that got away - and her ex-husband, who won't go away either. . .

Everybody knows that Cherry's husband is in Hollywood making a movie. Nobody knows that he isn't coming home.

While Tom's in L.A. getting rich and famous off his comic Thursday (with a character based on Cherry), Cherry's stuck in the house they were going to raise a family in – wondering who she's supposed to be without him.

Until one night, Cherry ventures out to see her favourite band play, and someone recognizes her from across the room.

Russ Sutton is a blast from Cherry’s past. He knows Cherry. He likes Cherry.

And best of all... he's never heard of Thursday.
  • Published: 14 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241688434
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Rainbow Rowell

The New York Times once called Rainbow Rowell 'talented enough to be uncategorizable.' She writes novels, comics, short stories . . . She’s a #1 New York Times bestseller several times over, wrote an Indies Choice Book of the Year, and is a three-time Goodreads Choice Award winner. The thread that runs through all Rowell’s work is her sunlit, knife-sharp empathy and unflagging sense of humor. She writes about life – and usually love – in a way that feels painfully, wonderfully real. Visit rainbowrowell.com to learn more.

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Praise for Cherry Baby

Anything by Rainbow Rowell goes straight to the top of my TBR - and I adored this one. She writes real, complex, messy love like nobody else. Tender and insightful, this love story will stay with me for a long time.

Beth O'Leary

All the pleasure and kicky-feet excitement of a romance, with all the psychological depth and insight of great literature, Cherry is a heroine for the ages, and Rainbow Rowell is a damn genius.

Rufi Thorpe

Cherry Baby is about love, and there are a lot of excellent sex scenes, but it’s also about women’s bodies in a way I’ve never read before. Rainbow Rowell, as ever, has written a book that only she could write.

Emma Straub
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