As some of you may know, my next book won’t be for younger readers. My adult debut, Almost the Whole Truth, is publishing in June 2027 from Viking in the UK and Crown in the US.
It’s the first book I’ve written in a long time that has absolutely nothing to do with Daisy and Hazel (it’s contemporary, not historical, and the main character is Alice Dearlove, who is in her 20s and just had a very bad break-up) but I know that if you’ve read and loved my books, and you’re older than 15 or 16, you’re going to love this book. It’s a murder mystery, it’s got a cast of very strange and amusing characters, and it’s all about what it means to be obsessed with crime fiction and true crime.
I really, truly love it, and I really hope that you’re going to fall in love with it the way you have with my younger fiction. The UK and Irish edition is available to pre-order NOW from Waterstones, Amazon, Blackwell’s and Bookshop.org.uk, and of course I would love it if you pre-ordered from your favourite independent bookshop.
More updates and pre-order links will be on the way – as well as the US and Canada, Almost the Whole Truth will be published in Germany, Italy, Czechia, Hungary, Romania, Spain, Ukraine and France.
Oh, and one more thing: if this makes you worried that I’m going to be an adult author from now on, please don’t despair. I’ve always been very clear that I want to keep writing for younger readers as well, and in fact I have several younger projects in the works right now. More updates on that soon, I hope!
