Pity Party

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You probably know a woman like Katherine. You might be a woman like Katherine. She would describe herself as cautious. Other people would describe her as anxious. She is profoundly responsible. She worries about remembering to take her vitamins. She worries about her pension. And she worries about being 32 years old and never truly feeling happy.

Katherine is a widow. She married young, she married wrong, and she hoped her husband, Ben, would bring her the feeling of home, security and family she craved, as well as bringing her out of her shell a bit. But Ben made her feel lonelier than ever. She knew she never loved him. And sometimes she lies awake at night feeling crushed by the weight of other people's sympathy for her loss. She doesn't deserve it. Especially not because she was falling in love with the wrong person, at the wrong time, when Ben died. Luke was her best friend; they were trying to tell themselves their relationship was a friendship. And it was on the brink of teetering into something much more serious when Ben died.

So, when she's put on leave for three months for making a massive mistake at work, for once, she's happy to take advice from her mother-in-law, Constance, and head to a wellness retreat. But this is no ordinary wellness retreat...

This is the story of a woman who has barely lived because she's been trying so hard to do the right thing. This is about her blooming and learning how to stop playing it safe in a world that feels so dangerous.

Author Bio

Daisy Buchanan is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. She has written for every major newspaper and magazine in the UK, from the Guardian to Grazia. She is a TEDx speaker, and she hosts the chart-topping podcast You're Booked, where she interviews legendary writers from all over the world about how their reading habits shape their work. Her other books include the non-fiction titles How To Be A Grown Up and The Sisterhood, and the novel Insatiable: A Love Story For Greedy Girls.