NEVER BEEN BETTER BY LEANNE TOSHIKO SIMPSON
Paperback published by Putnam Penguin Random House 5th March 2024
Pages 228
ISBN 9780593714782
Is she falling in love, or falling apart?
A hilariously offbeat and tender comedy about one bipolar woman’s messy search for love at a seaside wedding where no one can stay afloat.
Dee, Miss and Matt were the three musketeers of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is eager to convince everyone that she’s finally returning things around. But Matt and Miss are tying the knot in Turks and Caicos, surrounded by guests who have no idea where they met, and the secrecy isn’t sitting well with Dee, who has been hopelessly in love with Matt since before she got kicked out of the hospital.
So, when Dee arrives at the swanky resort with her high-voltage sister Tilley, it’s now or never to confess how she feels. But disrupting her best friend’s nuptials would jeopardise the entire support system that holds the trio together. When it comes to happy ever afters, how is a girl supposed to choose between love and recovery?
MY REVIEW
Today I’m shouting out loud about the page-turning amazing fiction book, Never Been Better! I loved the whole story from beginning to end, with its heartache of love, and friendship, being on the same psyche ward. Dee and Matt were always really close during their time in a psych ward, that was until, Dee left the hospital and then Misa was booked into the psychiatric ward and that ruined everything for Dee. Misa and Matt got on so well, that they were set to get married, where Dee Foster was invited to their expensive wedding. I was so involved with this storyline that as Dee loved Matt so much even though he was getting married to Miss, I wondered if Dee will turn up at their wedding. It doesn’t matter how old you are this story goes through so many stages, that every woman will just love reading! I want you all to know, this book NEVER BEEN BETTER comes very highly recommended by me.
Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a mixed-race Yonsei writer who lives with bipolar disorder. Named Scarborough’s Emerging Writer in 2016 and nominated for the Journey Prize in 2019, she co-founded a reflective writing program at Canada’s largest mental health hospital and teaches at the University of Toronto. Never https://www.leannetoshikosimpson.com/ https://www.instagram.com/leannetoshiko
Thank you so much Bee at Kaleidoscopic Tours for sending me this amazing page-turning novel.
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