It's Possible We're Overthinking This

When will we figure it all out? The women in this warm and intimate short story collection are grown-ups, but life never seems to get any easier. Fizz is haunted by memories of a teenage bully as she tries to enjoy a burrito; a fraught friendship break-up looms large over Sabrina; Maya is convinced her husband is having an affair, and she's also trying to dodge her children's demands for a kitten. Worries spiral amidst packed lunches, laundry and anniversaries. Everything is good, but also it isn't!Huma Qureshi brings refreshing honesty, humour and insight to these thoroughly pleasurable portraits of women's ordinary lives. Each story is a piquant reminder that - at every age - we're all still in the process of trying to become the people we want to be.PRAISE FOR THINGS WE DO NOT TELL THE PEOPLE WE LOVE:'Huma Qureshi is a writer I know I'll be reading for years and years and years' Natasha Lunn, author of Conversations on Love'[Qureshi] has a wonderfully luminous, understated style of writing' Diana Evans, Evening Standard'Intimate and incredibly insightful'Stylist