That Time Everything Was On Fire

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A warm, funny, painfully relatable debut novel about friendship, coming of age in your thirties and finding your purpose. For fans of Anna Hope, Nina Stibbe and Holly Bourne.

Heart-warming, funny and so relatable. This book made me want to cling to my life-long friendships and listen to Fleetwood Mac. Laura Dockrill, author of I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

Sam and Daisy have been best friends since university. Back then Daisy was a wild, Fleetwood Mac-obsessed girl descended from the Yorkshire Moors, while Sams youth was misspent traipsing around Liverpool on shopping trips and nights out.

But as they lean against each other on a wooden bench in the tired garden of their beloved local pub, gazing out at Sams wedding, they have no idea that their paths are about to truly diverge for the first time.

As Sams desire to become a mother consumes her, and Daisys inability to resist temptation haunts her, these best of friends will lose sight of themselves and each other. With each misstep and unintentional betrayal the gulf widens. But can they build a bridge, or will they let it burn

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Heart-warming, funny and so relatable. This book made me want to cling to my life-long friendships and listen to Fleetwood Mac. Laura Dockrill, author of I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

'A smart, perceptive take on Millennial womanhood, That Time Everything was on Fire tackles the classic "stuff of life" in all its modern messiness. Spending time with the characters in their hope, uncertainty and banter was like being amongst friends.' Gabrielle Griffiths, author of Greater Sins

A heartfelt kaleidoscope of female friendship. I think readers will love it. Roxy Dunn, author of As Young as This

Author Bio

Kerry Downes grew up in East Yorkshire and has spent the last decade in south London, working as an NHS specialist audiologist. Her journey through fertility treatment over the last few years inspired parts of this novel. She lives in Brighton with her husband and two children.