Pity Party : the hilarious and heartfelt novel you have to read this summer

Pity Party : the hilarious and heartfelt novel you have to read this summerAuthor: Buchanan, Daisy Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 17 July 2025 by Little, Brown Book Group (Sphere) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 368 pages 126 x 197 x 25 294g Katherine lives by the rules, ticks all the boxes and prepares for the worst, even while she hopes for the best. Then the worst actually happens and, as she tries to navigate life as a young widow, it turns out she was not prepared at all. Nothing scares

It is impossible to read without shedding tears' Simon Sebag Montefiore

One of Time Out’s Top 100 Children’s books of all time

His father wants him to be a good Jewish son

the book presents a searing chronicle of the lengths that people are willing to go to in pursuit of a political ideal

but thanks to his friends Piglet

and the quiet losses that often go unnoticed until it’s too late’

The trick is to know how to dust yourself off

Especially when my grumpy sister Delia is LOOMING over me

Hergé’s classic comic book creation Tintin is one of the most recognisable characters in children’s books

and bright

Yesterday George and Yesterday

is like every barn owl there ever was