Today Will Be Different

Because the other way wasn’t working. The waking up just to get the day over with until it was time for bed. The grinding it out was a disgrace, an affront to the honour of being alive at all. The ghost-walking, the short-tempered distraction, the hurried fog. Eleanor Flood knows she's a mess. But today will be different. Today she will shower and put on real clothes. She will attend her yoga class after dropping her son, Timby, off at school. She'll see an old friend for lunch. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action - life happens. For today is the day Timby has decided to pretend to be ill to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day surgeon Joe has chosen to tell his receptionist - but not Eleanor - that he's on vacation. And just when it seems that things can't go more awry, a former colleague produces a relic from the past - a graphic memoir with pages telling of family secrets long buried and a sister to whom Eleanor never speaks. 'Coolly comic, sharply observant novel' - The Sunday Times'Whipsmart, dazzling, darkly comic and deeply touching. I loved it!' - Marian Keyes Already a name in television from her work on hit TV shows including Mad Men and Arrested Development, American writer Maria Semple’s hit novel Where’d You Go Bernadette, remains a Waterstones bookseller favourite, an inventive, quirky, sharply cutting and laugh-aloud-funny novel which had that rare quality of feeling refreshingly, liberatingly new.