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There’s Nothing Wrong With Her

By: Kate Weinberg
Narrated by: Louiza Patikas
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Bloomsbury presents There’s Nothing Wrong With Her by Kate Weinberg, read by Louiza Patikas.

‘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
‘Very funny, very touching’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘Moving, absorbing, evocative’ SARA COLLINS
‘Wonderful ... Compelling ... Very funny’ MARINA HYDE
‘I devoured it…. Exquisitely written, poignant and funny’ FEARNE COTTON
‘This book will be your friend’ MIRANDA HART


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

PRAISE FOR KATE WEINBERG AND THE TRUANTS

'One of the standout books of the summer' Stylist
'Magical in every way . . . One of the best novels I've ever read' Fearne Cotton
'As much a coming-of-age tale as a murder mystery . . . An impressive debut' The Times©2024 Kate Weinberg (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Critic reviews

Kate Weinberg writes with prose so exquisite that I kept copying bits to show people. There's Nothing Wrong With Her is so beautifully perceptive and forensically observed; she writes about the complexities of human relationships in a way that stops me in my tracks. One of those books I will read again and again (JOJO MOYES)
A hallucinatory, amazingly capacious novel ... It’s a testament to Weinberg’s writing that I wouldn’t have minded staying in her feverish world for longer
A funny, philosophical novel that perfectly captures the surreal state of invisible illness … Remarkable
An almost dreamlike story of a young woman felled by an unnamed illness, and the shrunken world of neighbours and relationships around her ... Weinberg’s observations about relationships are forensic and quietly devastating (JOJO MOYES)
Wonderful ... Compelling ... Very funny (MARINA HYDE)
Delicious ... A witty tale of panic, lust and the search for identity (JASON ISAACS)
A sensitive, astute, funny study of the powerful intersection between body and mind
I sped through it. It’s deep and dark and beautifull (ESTHER FREUD)
It’s moving, absorbing, evocative - such a thoughtful exploration of the traps of grief and chronic illness. Beautifully conjured, with shades of The Yellow Wallpaper, but brilliantly modernised (SARA COLLINS)
This fresh, authentic novel stops you in your tracks and makes you reflect on life. As you become deeply invested in Vita’s road to recovery, you may find yourself considering what’s holding you back from being the fullest, messiest, most aIive version of yourself, too. A smart, significant read
An original and enchanting read
Slim in size but vast in emotional impact, Kate Weinberg’s novel explores the landscape of one woman’s life - her heart, her family, her pain and her desires. A work of dazzling bravery (JENNY JACKSON)
A compelling commentary on mental health
It's so beautiful. And so painful. And so gorgeously descriptive of a devastating chapter that so many of us just don't know or understand even, with all compassion (SARAH JESSICA PARKER)
Surreal, magical, and totally original, this beautiful novel provides a powerful insight into a world and experience that science is struggling to explain or navigate. Luminous (SATHNAM SANGHERA)
Funny and painfully true. A book of revelations. This is a beautiful capture of what it means to live with a chronic illness. The best thing you'll read this year (KILEY REID)
A really wonderful piece of work: so fresh. It encompasses so many things: a whole life - sorrows, damage, hopes (RICHARD CURTIS)
I’ve never read anything like it. A brilliant mass of contradictions... It’s light and dark, funny and moving, soulful and sexy, quirky and important. A delight and an education on every page (EMMA FREUD)
All stars
Most relevant
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.

Layered, Profound and Morish

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Loved listening to this excellent story could be any one of us read with great care by the narrator

Wonderful reading

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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.

A beautifully-read, deep dive into the blurred lines between mental and physical illness

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Vivid real and creative description of chronic illness. I loved the way that although it’s predominantly set in a sick bed the story moves from Brighton, London to 15th century Italy. A great vocal performance

Vivid real and creative description of chronic illness.

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