Kate Weinberg for the launch of There's Nothing Wrong With Her

We are very excited to welcome back friend of the bookshop, and author of The Truants, Kate Weinberg, for her new book There's Nothing Wrong With Her. This is a tender, witty, and highly original novel about mental health, the certainties of medicine, buried trauma, love, death and time lost in the crushing - and comical - hopes of modern life.

Vita Woods is on the brink. She has a good job and a successful doctor boyfriend, Max, with whom the sex is great and the chat sufficient; a vivacious and charming sister Gracie, her verbal sparring partner and best friend for life; and she's even got a goldfish called Whitney Houston, who brightens her days by showing her she's not the only one going round in circles. Because it's the days that are Vita's problem.

Vita is not leaving the house. In fact, Vita rarely exits the basement apartment where she lives, since Vita is in "The Pit" - a place of deep exhaustion and semi-consciousness where she spends much of her time, dead to the world and to herself. She has been sick for months, with an illness that no doctor, not even Max, can medically diagnose.

One day an unexpected courier delivery forces Vita outside, into the light - and into a chance encounter with her neighbours upstairs. Suddenly, Vita finds herself faced with an even trickier dilemma. She likes her new friends; she'll even sneak upstairs to see them while Max is out, against all medical advice but something about her "condition" is nagging at the borders of her mind. After all, what is a house-bound girl to do when she can't keep the light, her new friendships, or - worst of all - her memories out? The problem might be Vita herself but as far as anyone can prove... there's nothing wrong with her.

'The best thing you'll read this year' - KILEY REID

'So beautiful' - SARAH JESSICA PARKER

'Surreal, magical, and totally original, this beautiful novel provides a powerful insight into a world and experience that science is struggling to explain or navigate. Luminous' - SATHNAM SANGHERA

'One of those books I will read again and again' - JOJO MOYES

'Moving, absorbing, evocative' - SARA COLLINS

Kate will be in conversation with Julia Samuel MBE, a psychotherapist, counsellor, and author.