‘It’s an uplifting, rip-roaring read, peppered with nostalgic detail and plenty of comic asides.’ Daily Express

‘A golden ray of sunshine. If you’re after a funny, uplifting summer read then this is for you!’ Libby Page, author of  The Lido

‘A joyous way to spend an afternoon.’ Joannna Nadin, author of The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings

‘Taylor’s writing is sublime, effortlessly combining humour with pathos and spot-on period detail while sensitively exploring themes such as loss, grief, love and death. It’s sure to be another hit.’ Yorkshire Post

‘A thoroughly uplifting and unputdownable sequel to the bestselling The Miseducation of Evie Epworth.’ Waterstones

1972. Ten years on from the events of  The Miseducation of  Evie  Epworth  and  Evie  is settled in London working for the BBC. She has everything she’s ever dreamed of (a career, a leatherette briefcase, an Ossie Clark poncho) but, following an unfortunate incident involving Princess Anne and a  Hornsea Pottery  mug, she finds herself having to  rethink her life and piece together work, love, grief and multiple pairs of cork-soled platform sandals.  

Ghosts from the past and the spirit of the future collide in a joyous adventure that sees  Evie  navigate the choppy waters of her messy twenties. Can a 1960s miseducation prepare her for the growing pains of the 1970s?

Big-hearted, uplifting, bittersweet and tender,  All  About  Evie  is a novel fizzing with wit and alive to the power of friendship in  all  its forms.  

Praise for  The Miseducation of Evie Epworth

‘Tight, clever and riddled with wit. Like discovering  Adrian Mole  or  Bridget Jones  for the first time.’  Joanna Nadin, author of  The Queen of Bloody Everything

‘A sweet, fizzy sherbet dib-dab of a book – deliciously nostalgic, hugely funny and ultimately heartwarming. The perfect book for our times.’  Veronica Henry

‘Such a joyful and uplifting read. Just the sort of thing that people will want to be reading right now.’  Anita Rani,  Radio 2 Book Club

‘Full of fabulous characters, sprinkled with joy and drenched in wit.’ Milly Johnson

‘A joyous way to spend an afternoon.’ Joannna Nadin, author of The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings

Yorkshire Post: ‘Taylor’s writing is sublime, effortlessly combining humour with pathos and spot-on period detail while sensitively exploring themes such as loss, grief, love and death. It’s sure to be another hit.’ Yorkshire Post

‘A thoroughly uplifting and unputdownable sequel to the bestselling The Miseducation of Evie Epworth.’ Waterstones

1972. Ten years on from the events of  The Miseducation of  Evie  Epworth  and  Evie  is settled in London working for the BBC. She has everything she’s ever dreamed of (a career, a leatherette briefcase, an Ossie Clark poncho) but, following an unfortunate incident involving Princess Anne and a  Hornsea Pottery  mug, she finds herself having to  rethink her life and piece together work, love, grief and multiple pairs of cork-soled platform sandals.  

Ghosts from the past and the spirit of the future collide in a joyous adventure that sees  Evie  navigate the choppy waters of her messy twenties. Can a 1960s miseducation prepare her for the growing pains of the 1970s?

Big-hearted, uplifting, bittersweet and tender,  All  About  Evie  is a novel fizzing with wit and alive to the power of friendship in  all  its forms.  

Praise for  The Miseducation of Evie Epworth

‘Tight, clever and riddled with wit. Like discovering  Adrian Mole  or  Bridget Jones  for the first time.’  Joanna Nadin, author of  The Queen of Bloody Everything

‘A sweet, fizzy sherbet dib-dab of a book – deliciously nostalgic, hugely funny and ultimately heartwarming. The perfect book for our times.’  Veronica Henry

‘Such a joyful and uplifting read. Just the sort of thing that people will want to be reading right now.’  Anita Rani,  Radio 2 Book Club

‘Full of fabulous characters, sprinkled with joy and drenched in wit.’ Milly Johnson

‘A sweet, fizzy sherbet dib-dab of a book – deliciously nostalgic, hugely funny and ultimately heartwarming. The perfect book for our times.’  Veronica Henry

‘Full of fabulous characters, sprinkled with joy and drenched in wit.’  Milly Johnson

July, 1962
 
Sixteen year-old Evie Epworth stands on the cusp of womanhood. But what kind of a woman will she become?
 
The fastest milk bottle-delivery girl in East Yorkshire, Evie is tall as a tree and hot as the desert sand. She dreams of an independent life lived under the bright lights of London (or Leeds). The two posters of Adam Faith on her bedroom wall (‘brooding Adam’ and ‘sophisticated Adam’) offer wise counsel about a future beyond rural East Yorkshire. Her role models are Charlotte Bronte, Shirley MacLaine and the Queen. But, before she can decide on a career, she must first deal with the malign presence of her future step-mother, the manipulative and money-grubbing Christine.
 
If Evie can rescue her bereaved father, Arthur, from Christine’s pink and over-perfumed clutches, and save the farmhouse from being sold off then maybe she can move on with her own life and finally work out exactly who it is she is meant to be.  
 
Moving, inventive and richly comic, The Miseducation of Evie Epworth is the most joyful debut novel of the year and the best thing to have come out of Yorkshire since Wensleydale cheese.    

‘Such a joyful and uplifting read. Just the sort of thing that people will want to be reading right now.’ Radio 2 Book Club

‘Funny and original with a cast of eccentric characters, this debut novel is a tour de force. Not to be missed.’ Sunday Express

‘A rich triumph of comic writing.’ Waterstones.com

‘One of the funniest, wittiest and most joyful books you will read this year.’  Lancaster Guardian