Every heart is a puzzle of broken pieces

Vulnerable, delicate, and impossible to put down. A novel for fans of Sally Rooney to Colleen Hoover, perfectly capturing the pulse of the millennial generation. With fearless honesty and humorous warmth, Genevieve Wheeler encapsulates the timeless challenge of facing life – and love – with all its imperfections.

Adelaide Williams is living the dream of a thousand possibilities: she’s navigating the London pub scene, trying to finish her master’s degree, and hoping to land a job that doesn’t consist of underpaid overtime in PR. And she falls in love. With the stunning Rory Hughes, always just out of reach. But Adelaide knows: if she tries just a little harder and loves him a bit more, he will forget her small flaws.

Then Rory's ex-girlfriend Nathalie, a Times journalist and perfection incarnate, dies. What Adelaide has always feared happens: the carefully balanced structure of her life collapses. No matter how hard she tries, she cannot measure up to the spirit of Nathalie. It takes time for Adelaide to realize that the light shines brightest when it refracts through the thousand little imperfections of life.