Wreck

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From the NYT bestselling author of WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS and SANDWICH, a deeply emotional and deeply funny novel about life''s random accidents, family, and living for the moment.

Rocky, Nick, Willa and Jamie. A normal loving, anxious, messy, unpredictable, relatable, family.

Rocky has her own her way of processing disasters: 1. This could happen to us. 2. This couldn’t happen to us. And then there’s a secret third column: ‘This could happen to us unless I am very careful/ superstitious/ grateful…’

So what happens when ‘this could happen to us’ turns into ‘it really might be me’?

When a former classmate of Jamie’s dies in a seemingly random accident, Rocky becomes obsessed. She''s also developed a niggling medical condition that won''t go away. She is still living her best life as the irreverent, funny, unpredictably beating heart of her family. Her father is still his unique, outspoken adorable self; Willa is still prone to bouts of existential angst whilst berating the fact that her mother has zero filter; Nick is still steady, logical, sometimes infuriating.

But if accidents can happen – and they do – is it safe to love anyone?

Laugh out loud funny and deeply emotional, WRECK follows Rocky and her family through one rollercoaster year as they learn to live with life''s ''what ifs?''

© Catherine Newman 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025