Not Exactly What I Had in Mind

by Kate Brook

Roy Blount Jr. is the author of twenty-two books, covering subjects from the Pittsburgh Steelers to Robert E. Lee, to trying to understand the South. He is a regular panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!

352 pages, Hardcover

Published July 7, 2022

About the author

Kate Brook is an author based in London. Her first novel, Not Exactly What I Had in Mind, was published in 2022, and her short-form writing has been published in LitHub, The Fiction Pool and The Real Story. She holds a PhD in French Literature and Visual Art from King’s College London, a Masters in European Literature from the University of Cambridge, and has worked as a bookseller and in publishing. She lives with her partner and their many houseplant children.

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