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There’s Nothing Wrong with Her
- Narrated by: Louiza Patikas
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
‘The best thing you'll read this year’ KILEY REID
‘So beautiful’ SARAH JESSICA PARKER
‘One of those books I will read again and again’ JOJO MOYES
‘Moving, absorbing, evocative’ SARA COLLINS
‘Wonderful ... Compelling ... Very funny’ MARINA HYDE
A crackling, comical, tender, and highly original novel about mental health, the certainties of medicine, buried trauma, love, death and time lost in the crushing – and comical – hopes of modern life
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Vita Woods is on the brink. She has a good job and a successful doctor boyfriend, Max, with whom the sex is great and the chat sufficient; a vivacious and charming sister Gracie, her verbal sparring partner and best friend for life; and she’s even got a goldfish called Whitney Houston, who brightens her days by showing her she's not the only one going round in circles.
Because it’s the days that are Vita’s problem. Vita is not leaving the house. In fact, Vita rarely exits the basement apartment where she lives, since Vita is in “The Pit” – a place of deep exhaustion and semi-consciousness where she spends much of her time, dead to the world and to herself. She has been sick for months, with an illness that no doctor, not even Max, can medically diagnose.
One day an unexpected courier delivery forces Vita upstairs, into the light - and into a chance encounter with her neighbours upstairs. Suddenly, Vita finds herself faced with an even trickier dilemma. She likes her new friends; she’ll even sneak upstairs to see them while Max is out, against all medical advice but something about her “condition” is nagging at the borders of her mind. After all, what is a house-bound girl to do when she can’t keep the light, her new friendships, or - worst of all - her memories out? The problem might be Vita herself but as far as anyone can prove... there’s nothing wrong with her.
‘Encompasses so many things: a whole life - sorrows, damage, hopes' RICHARD CURTIS
'Surreal, magical, totally original' SATHNAM SANGHERA
'Deep and dark and beautiful' ESTHER FREUD
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- 28-08-24
A beautifully-read, deep dive into the blurred lines between mental and physical illness
Vita finds herself struck down with a mystery illness that leaves her exhausted and confined to her bed while medical tests can’t offer a diagnosis. This strains her relationship with her new boyfriend, a doctor, and leads to insights about the ways in which women’s pain and suffering has often been dismissed by a technocratic medical model that struggles to make sense of it. During the trance-like state of being in ‘the pit’ - Vita’s shorthand for the spiralling feeling of succumbing to her symptoms - she talks with the ghost of a 16th century poet called Luigi da Porto about love, suffering and resilience.
The narrator, Louiza Patikas, does a brilliant job of bringing the characters to life, particularly the grandiose Italian Luigi and the thoughtful, grieving lady who lives in the upstairs flat, Mrs Rothwell. The prose is well-suited to the audiobook format and the narration was pitch perfect.
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- Detroit
- 02-08-24
Layered, Profound and Morish
So much to unpack with this story, I want to listen to it again immediately. The gravitas of the story line and the deeply insightful observations of complexity of being human, made so digestible with the comedic, romantic and fantastical elements.
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