I'm sorry you feel that way : a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships

“This is an excellent book; excellent in so many ways but excellent in specifically pointing at social anxiety... The novel is an excellent example of uncovering mental illness, involving the reader in the excruciating step-by-step process of being entirely swallowed by mental fatigue & loss of control. The prose is careful & considered in explaining the generations of the family’s trauma, from either being diagnosed with schizophrenia or psychosis or watching it unfold in their relatives. Stigma is eradicated, particularly around schizophrenia.” — Nota Bene PrizeShortlisted for the 2023 Nota Bene Prize, I’m Sorry You Feel That Way is a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health & the intricacies of sibling relationships.For Alice & Hanna, saint & sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with.There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything. As adults, Alice & Hanna must deal with disappointments in work & in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, & lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended.They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, & they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down.And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments. — Nota Bene Prize°°° Rebecca Wait grew up in the Oxfordshire countryside & read English at Oxford University. She is the author of prize-winning short stories & plays, as well as critically acclaimed novels The View on the Way Down (2013) & The Followers (2017). She writes & teaches in London. From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships. For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide and conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything. As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments. "For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything . . . As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments."--Publisher