Last Updated on May 2, 2024 by BiblioLifestyle
Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson
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Jetset to the Turks and Caicos, get recommendations of what to do when visiting, and learn more about Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson. In Leanne’s debut novel, we meet a woman navigating mental health struggles, love, and friendships while attending a destination wedding for her best friends in Turks and Caicos.
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On the episode: Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson
BOOKS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
BOOKS READ, LOVED, AND WOULD NOW RECOMMEND
- Pride and Joy by Louisa Onomé (Amazon or Bookshop)
- Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman (Amazon or Bookshop)
- Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman (Amazon or Bookshop)
- Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey (Amazon or Bookshop)
CHILDHOOD FAVORITES
- The Flower Girl
CURRENTLY READING & BOOKS ON THE TBR
About Leanne Toshiko Simpson
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 Been Better is her debut novel.
PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION:
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.
Is she falling in love, or falling apart?
Dee, Misa, and Matt were the “three musketeers” of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is eager to convince everyone that she’s finally turning things around. But Matt and Misa 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 friends’ nuptials would jeopardize the entire support system that holds the trio together. When it comes to happily ever afters, how is a girl supposed to choose between love and recovery?
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