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‘Eerie and unsettling and believable’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

‘A bleak, hilarious and uncomfortable triumph. Underscores McCurdy’s talent for focusing in on the multilayered nature of trauma and artfully unpicking it, one scab at a time’ Guardian

‘A bold and unapologetic novel for edge-seekers, doom-scrollers, latchkey kids, horn-dogs and all those who love hard’ Brittany Newell in the New York Times

‘Shocking, honest and unsparing. A sardonic voice, finely tuned to the push and pull of tragedy and humour’ Sunday Times Style

‘A beadily intelligent novel about the currents of predation without feeling the need to deliver lectures. Waldo is a brilliant creation, and I hope McCurdy makes the transition to novelist a permanent one’ The Times

‘Thought-provoking and shocking, darkly comic and witty’ Independent

‘Dark, raw, funny and razor-sharp’ Red Magazine

‘Jennette McCurdy writes sentences that glimmer and cut like razors. This novel is uncomfortable, unpredictable, and unputdownable’ Aria Aber, author of Good Girl

‘A riveting examination of lust and self-delusion. McCurdy is a fearless and darkly funny writer with an unerring eye for the perfect mortifying detail’ Tom Perrotta, author of Election

PRAISE FOR I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED…

‘An important cultural document just as much as a searingly personal one’ Lena Dunham

“How can a book be so sad and also so funny? It’s an art, and Jennette McCurdy has mastered it’ Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy

‘A vivid, biting, darkly comic writer’ Vogue

‘McCurdy reveals herself to be a stingingly funny and insightful writer, capable of great empathy and a brutal punchline’Time

‘A coming-of-age story that is alternately harrowing and funny’ The New York Times

‘A magnum opus. Sharply funny and empathetic’ The Washington Post

‘The publishing sensation.’ Guardian

Jennette McCurdy starred in Nickelodeon’s hit show iCarly and its spin-off, Sam & Cat, as well as in the Netflix series Between. In 2017, she quit acting and began pursuing writing/directing. Her films have been featured in the Florida Film Festival, the Salute Your Shorts Film Festival, Short of the Week, and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in HuffPost and The Wall Street Journal. Her one-woman show I’m Glad My Mom Died had two sold-out runs at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre and Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles. She hosts a podcast called Empty Inside, which has topped Apple’s charts and features guests speaking about uncomfortable topics. She lives in Los Angeles.