Jennette McCurdy has a new book in the works.
Following the release of her bestselling memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, the 33-year-old former actress and singer is set to release her first novel, called Half His Age.
This will be her first work of fiction, and it’s got a release date set for January 20, 2026.
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She also just unveiled the book cover, as well as the description per her publisher on Thursday (August 28).
Here’s the synopsis, via Penguin Random House (where you can currently preorder the book): “Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does.”
“Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.”
If you didn’t know, Jennette also has a TV adaptation of her hit memoir coming. Find out which A-lister is set to star!
