Square One: A brilliantly bold and sharply funny debut from the author of The Panic Years

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The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the influential author of The Panic Years, about a woman whose life has gone back to...square one. 'Electrifyingly good...sharply comic and perfectly poignant' Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable ------------------- Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it) A fulfilling and successful career A healthy, long-term relationship, maybe even an engagement ring A house (or at least a flat) of her own But in reality, she's back at square one... Single after breaking up with someone she's not sure ever loved her Flooded with wedding invitations and pregnancy scan pictures from friends Unable to afford to live on her own and forced to move in with her father who is also single and dating Everyone moves at different paces, but Hanna's life is in reverse. With the pressure to keep up and her dad's insufferable musings on Tinder, will she be able to figure out what she really wants?

Nell Frizzell is a writer, journalist and Vogue columnist. She has written and worked for the Guardian, VICE, The Sunday Times, Elle, the BBC, the Observer, Grazia and The Independent among many others. Her first book, The Panic Years, was an exploration of bodies, babies and the big questions facing modern life. Her debut novel, Square One, painted a humorous picture of moving home, fathers and daughters and surviving heartbreak. She lives in Oxford, in a very small house full of pasta and bedding and bikes.

Electrifyingly good...sharply comic and perfectly poignant * Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable * Keenly observed and hecking funny, this is a book for our times * Red * A fresh, funny novel filled with truths about relationships and perfect details. I tore though it * Amy Liptrot * The #HOTMESS manifesto... a relatable story about a slow-mo car crash of early 30s. * Evening Standard * Witty and heart-warming, we couldn't put this book down * Closer *