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Is That You, Beth Cherry?

the warm and witty new novel from the author of Irresponsible Adult

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 Beth's life, like the unfinished manuscript on her laptop, is stuck.

Since her devastating breakup with Fraser she's retreated into a lonely working-from-home world of sweatpants, disordered timekeeping and comfort eating. The one luminous constant in her life is her love for her rescue dog, Tomsk, and his for her.

When her house share falls apart, she is thrown a lifeline by the least likely person: Fraser's mother Martine, who offers Beth and Tomsk a temporary space above her garage in which to start over.

But Martine's favours always come at a price: she's volunteered a reluctant Beth as a writer for a project called The Story of Your Life, run by the local retirement community. Some of the stories Beth hears are heartwarming, some are heartbreaking, and some even make her question her own past relationships.
All of them, she notes, reveal a little more than the teller realises...

When she is sent an anonymous story of first love that threatens to destroy more than one family's identity, Beth faces an impossible decision, and ultimately must choose:

Is she in charge of her own story? Or will she let someone else write her last chapter.©2025 Lucy Dillon Contemporary Contemporary Fiction Family Life Genre Fiction Women's Fiction Heartfelt

Critic reviews

Sweet, funny, and oh-so-relatable, Is That You Beth Cherry is an ultimately uplifting tale of love, loss and the enduring power of stories. A cracking read! (MIKE GAYLE)
An uplifting hug of a novel about second chances, saying yes to life, and what it takes to become the hero of your own story (LUCY DIAMOND)
PRAISE FOR LUCY DILLON
So good! Warm and funny, and I was rooting for Robyn from the very first page (MILLY JOHNSON)
Funny, perceptive and oh-so-relatable, Robyn's reluctant mission to clean up her world is full of laughs and also some heart-twisting surprises (ALEXANDRA POTTER)
A funny, relatable read with some surprise twists
All stars
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Absolutely love this book, and enjoyed every second of it! Lucy Dillon is my firm favourite and with my favourite narrator, Karen Cass, this book is pure bliss!

New favourite

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A feel good story from Lucy Dillon, with the right sprinkling of dogs interspersed in the plot.

Lucy Dillon never disappoints

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Thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook.
Easy listen with a nice story.
Brilliantly narrated by Karen Cass.
Would recommend

Really enjoyable

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