Hello Carrie and Tim,
I’m getting in touch about Mo Fanning’s Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine, published on 18 June by Spring Street Books.
This feels like it could suit Booka’s events programme or book club readers, particularly as a warm commercial fiction title with strong discussion points around friendship, pressure, pretending to have life sorted, and the emotional cost of keeping up appearances.
Mo is a local writer of contemporary fiction with an inclusive perspective, and the book has a clear romcom hook alongside a more thoughtful edge. While the Manchester setting is not the obvious regional angle for you, the broader themes should resonate with readers across the Midlands and Welsh borders. His previous book, ‘Rainbows and Lollipops’, set in Birmingham, won the 2025 Page Turner Award. He’s taking part in the Nottingham Queer the Shelves festival and writing the lead comment piece in the Bookseller this June.
If helpful, I’d be glad to send over a fuller summary, author information, and the press materials. If there’s interest, we’d also be keen to discuss being part of an event, bookmarks or signed stock, or even a Booka book club fit.
Many thanks,
Adrian