I Give My Marriage A Year

'The most insightful novel on marriage I've ever read. I can't stop thinking about it' MIA FREEDMAN

'Poignant, compelling and full of aha moments, this book will have you nodding, laughing and crying, and most of all, incredibly invested in the outcome' SALLY HEPWORTH

ONE YEAR. TWELVE TESTS. A LIFETIME OF SECRETS.

Lou and Josh have the house, the kids, and a thousands shaed memories. But Lou is drowning under the invisible weight of a marriage on autopilot. And after a disastrous family Christmas, she reaches a terrifying breaking point: she isn’t ready to leave; but she can’t stay like this.
In a final bid to save her family, Lou sets an ultimatum: one year, twelve tests. From enforced intimacy to brutal honesty, this isn’t a game: it’s a rescue mission to find the man she married.

But as the tests push Josh to his limit and Lou to edge of her sanity, they life they’ve built begins to truly unravel. And with time running out, can they bridge the distance between them, or are some cracks too deep to mend?

Funny, uncomfortable, and devastatingly relatable, I Give My Marriage a Year is the book you’ll be debating long after the final page.

PRAISE FOR I GIVE MY MARRIAGE A YEAR

'A sharply written, funny and poignant portrait of marriage, and all the highs and lows that go with it' SUNDAY MAIL

'Another clever offering from Holly Wainwright' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Every now and again you find a book that reads you back. One that makes you wonder if the author has cameras inside your house' READER REVIEW

'Paints a sharply accurate, often hilarious picture of a modern marriage' READER REVIEW