This Is Fine
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  • Published: 13 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804949870
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

This Is Fine

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7 Oct 2025
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13 Jun 2024
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13 Jun 2024
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13 Jul 2024
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One messy family is about to spend the summer starting over. This is the insightful, funny and moving second novel from award-winning journalist Poorna Bell.

It might not be the stuff of dreams, but Padma and Wallace have spent ten years building a relationship that feels . . . fine. Until Wallace gives Padma an ultimatum about starting a family she's not sure she even wants.

Padma's fifteen-year-old niece Myra is reaching her own crisis point. When she falls in with the wrong crowd and her life ends up in danger, it's the final straw for her parents.

Now Padma will spend the summer with her niece - in a ramshackle, ivy-clad house on the Kent clifftops - running a DIY rehab of sorts.

Will this be a pressure too far for her and Wallace? And how will she spend six weeks with a niece who, thanks to her sister, she barely knows?

It's the last place they want to be.

But this could just be the summer that changes everything . . .
  • Published: 13 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804949870
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Poorna Bell

Poorna Bell is an award-winning journalist and author of fifteen years, former Executive Editor and Global Lifestyle Head for HuffPost. She won Stylist's Rising Star award for 2019, Red magazine's Big Book Award for 2019. She was named as one of Marie Claire's top 30 women and a Balance magazine top 100 Wellness personality. A judge for the Mind Media Awards and for the Costa Book Awards, Poorna has written for Red, the Telegraph, The Times, Stylist, I News, BBC, the Guardian and Grazia.

Poorna has published three works of non-fiction: Chase The Rainbow, In Search of Silence and Stronger, which is part memoir, part manifesto about women's strength and fitness. She is an experienced public speaker and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio.
In Case of Emergency is Poorna's first work of fiction.

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