- Published: 11 March 2025
- ISBN: 9781804993187
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $22.99
Sandwich
- Published: 11 March 2025
- ISBN: 9781804993187
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $22.99
Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life.
Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake
A piece of perfection… Family, love, secrets, a marriage that is ordinary, imperfect, sexy and beautiful… I laughed, I cried and I laughed some more… a wonderful book about how families love, disagree, fail one another - and endure.
Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Catherine Newman is basically a national treasure at this point… so it’s not surprising that her new hilarious, deeply moving, gorgeously plotted, beautifully written, slyly subversive new novel, Sandwich, hit me like a ton of bricks…. a novel written from a place of wonder and love
Joanna Rakoff, NYT bestselling author of My Salinger Year
I adored this novel and am forcing it on everyone I know
Jenny Colgan, author of The Summer Skies
This will break your heart before putting it back together
Red
If you are after a book to pack on your next holiday, look no further. Here is a novel which will go down as easily as a chilled poolside drink ... Sandwich has such poignant things to say about family, marriage and parenting, while also casting a gorgeous light on those golden holiday days (even if you do spend most of the trip dragging sand around or looking for parking). A hilarious tonic of a book.
i Newspaper
Newman transitions with ease from moments of melancholy to observations which make you laugh out loud. A moving read which finds the joy in everyday life.
PA Media
Explores the compromises of a long marriage and the bittersweetness of children leaving home so beautifully
Good Housekeeping
This author has such an acute observation of relationships ... Catherine creates a real snapshot of families changing and growing
Prima
Engaging, frank, funny and moving and fearlessly explores middle age’s many challenges. In every sense the hot summer read.
Daily Mail
Newman is truly a master of taking complex and chaotic human emotion and making sense of it ... wise and exquisitely written
Guardian
Funny, wise, poignant and beautifully written
Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina
Newman’s second work of fiction confirms her as a writer with a sharp ear for dialogue, astute emotional insight, and an infectious sense of humour. A gem of a novel.
Observer
If you want to laugh out loud, tear up and rush to pull out a book in the 35 seconds between subway stops, this sweet, savory, tenderhearted Sandwich fits the bill, and goes down like (bread and) buttah.
New York Times
[Sandwich] practically glows with family feeling . . . . [it] has much in common with Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake
Washington Post
Sandwich is my idea of the perfect summer novel: shimmering and substantive
Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
Newman is warm, generous, always funny—but always with the intent to make you laugh at yourself as much as the characters. A beach novel to pass onto your best friends
Oprah Daily
Feels like eating pastries (from the 'good' bakery) over coffee while venting to my mother on the beach
Boston Globe
I stand in awe, it’s just perfect
Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Swan Song
This delightful book just begs to get sand between its pages
People
Sandwich will have you laughing through your tears . . . You’ll be screenshotting paragraphs of this heartbreakingly honest novel to send to your friends
Real Simple
I couldn’t love it more, can’t stop talking about it, can’t stop texting full paragraphs to my friends saying, Right!!??? . . . It’s so completely fun and laugh-out-loud funny the way summer reads are supposed to be
Jenny Rosenstrach, Cup of Jo
[Newman] has a gift for exploring the real, messy contradictions in human emotions . . . A moving, hilarious reminder that parenthood, just like life, means constant change
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
What I love about this book is we see from the perspective of the mother how incredibly excited she is to bring her family all together again, which is something I can relate to . . . she is in that sandwich generation, in that middle place in life. Newman did an exquisite job of showing that middle place with a lot of humor and sensitivity and kindness. It’s a book I couldn’t stop thinking about when I finished
Liz Egan, New York Times Book Review podcast
The last book that really made me laugh. I loved it.
Liane Moriarty