What to do if you are “paused”? Queenie, 25, lives in London and works for a fashion magazine, and her friends appreciate her sense of humor. But she constantly doubts herself and has a hard time believing that she has achieved all this: after all, she is the first in her Jamaican family to receive a higher education. When Queenie's boyfriend suddenly suggests that she "take a break from dating," her life and self-esteem begin to crumble like a house of cards. Stay faithful or lose yourself with guys from dating apps? Throw yourself into work? Or deal with old family secrets? A frank story that will touch the hearts of fans of Bridget Jones's Diary and Americana. Brave, disarmingly honest, Queenie is a novel about what it means to be a modern girl whose world is falling apart - and how to find the strength to restore it.