Look at me

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• From a multi award-winning German novelist comes this finely nuanced and disarmingly funny novel about a woman who has lost sight of who she once was • Katharina began adult life as a promising musician and PhD student. Now she is the mother of 11yo Hel who has ADHD and 17yo Alex who sails through life as Kat wishes she could. Her husband, Costas, is always away working in Berlin • Her usually reliable ‘lists’ are not keeping her calm because she has found a lump in her breast and her old boyfriend is coming to dinner • Look At Me is about a woman asking: ‘Wasn’t there supposed to be more to life than this?’ When she decides to stop being invisible, her family and several other onlookers can't help but take notice. • This literary novel is both blackly funny and deeply reflective. It perfectly captures both the mundanity and sweetness of ‘ordinary’ life. • Look At Me will appeal to fans of AM Homes and Maria Semple.