Well, This Is Awkward
By (Author) Esther Walker
Bedford Square Publishers
Bedford Square Publishers
28th October 2025
11th September 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Family life fiction
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Hardback
336
Width 141mm, Height 220mm
Mairad is single, child-free and head of a successful influencer talent agency. The young people at work may be mean to her, she hasn't seen her only sister for nine years and she's one bad date away from giving up on men completely - but other than that, she's got life sorted.
Until Sunshine shows up. When her militant, off-grid sister has a mysterious accident, Mairad's inscrutable niece comes to stay, turning life upside down. It's just for a couple of weeks - surely Mairad can manage that
But Sunshine makes her look at every single aspect of her life with different eyes. And Mairad's afraid nothing will be the same again.
Esther Walker is a lifestyle journalist whose work has appeared in The Times and The Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the i and Grazia. She is the author of the cult cooking blog Recipe Rifle and now writes the Substack newsletter The Spike, which has 6,000 subscribers. Her first two non-fiction books The Bad Cook and The Bad Mother are available as ebooks. Esther also co-hosts an award-nominated weekly topical podcast with her husband for The Times, called Giles Coren Has No Idea.