My second novel, Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not will be published by Penguin Random House Australia on 20 February 2024. It is a book about postcards, misophonia*, and making bad choices in your twenties, but then learning to make good choices (maybe).
Here is the full blurb:
Librarian Phoebe Cotton lives with misophonia*. The sound of other people crunching an apple, slurping their tea or snapping chewing gum fills her with a rage that she buries deep within.
Mortified by her ‘Not Quite Right’ brain, she hides away inside 6 Salmon Street, the family home that her formidable grandmother Dorothy has abandoned for a more convivial life at the Western Retreat Retirement Village. But when Phoebe begins receiving mysterious postcards in the mail, she slowly, but surely, finds herself being pulled back out into the world and towards Monty, the sweet postal clerk.
Across town, Suze, a university student with a high distinction in study avoidance, is clinging to the hope that the neglectful J might actually be her boyfriend. When J’s attention turns to Ky and her (un)art ways, it sets Suze on a path that it leads her to 6 Salmon Street and Phoebe Cotton.
Together, Phoebe, Suze and Monty, go on a mission to solve the mystery of the postcards but end up finding much, much more, including acceptance, strength and love . . . maybe even for her grandmother Dorothy.
*a hypersensitivity to certain sounds, most commonly eating noises, and by ‘hypersensitivity’, I mean an irrational white-hot murderous but deeply-buried rage.
COVER BY ALEX ROSS.
IMBI NEEME: Writer 