I'm Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships.

For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is their older brother, Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of but has shaped everything.

As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love, as well as increasingly complicated family tensions and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments.

©2022 Rebecca Wait (P)2022 Quercus Editions Limited

Unlikable characters who you just can’t get enough of

The character development in this story is excellent. This is a family of anxious, self-doubting narcissists. Yet, they are also strangely compelling. I listened non-stop to this book. The narrator has a wide vocal range and brings the characters to life.