Book Club: Emma Young’s The Disorganisation of Celia Stone

With its personal diary format, early 30s female protagonist and frank, witty approach to subject matter including body image, relationships and careers, there are echoes of Bridget Jones to be heard in The Disorganisation of Celia Stone, the second novel by Perth-based journalist and writer Emma Young.

But where Helen Fielding’s Bridget was a self-described “singleton” intent on finding a man in ’90s London, Young’s Celia is a financial counsellor living in Perth in 2019 with her husband Jes, and constantly finding herself “overwhelmed by life and its competing priorities”.