Free Therapy

Funny, clever and true, read the unmissable short story collection about modern relationships'Brilliant… This collection covers themes on sex, friendship and work and dives into what it means to be human' STYLIST'So precise and articulate' SUNDAY TIMES‘Arresting and inventive’ SALLY ROONEY'I couldn't get enough' MICHAEL MAGEETwo teenage girls fixate on each other's bodies; a woman encounters an ex and reflects on the women's group that saved her; an older man's buried grief emerges in encounter with a woman driving a 4×4; and a waitress lacks the money to fix an impacted tooth as the cracks in her life begin to show. Free Therapy takes us into the inner lives of women and men who are versed in the language of therapy, possessed with the self-knowledge needed to change their lives, but finding themselves unwilling to doing so. As her characters try and fail to connect, Rebecca Ivory reveals the ways in which we posture and present, and the insecurities that lie beneath. ‘Her writing feels so fresh’ PANDORA SYKES'A major new talent' I