Pinkie’s Turnabout
A Great-grandmother’s dementia and the school bully force an 11-year-old to reckon with empathy, forgiveness, and owning your mistakes
Released February 2026, Fitzroy Books
Eleven-year-old Pinkie Starlight is having a not-great summer. Her best friend is off at camp, and Pinkie is home helping care for her great-grandmother, GG, whose dementia means some days are sharp and funny and others are confusing, repetitive, and heartbreaking. GG sometimes forgets how to work the remote — and sometimes forgets who, exactly, Pinkie is.
But that’s only the beginning. In the new middle grade novel Pinkie’s Turnabout (Fitzroy, February 2026) by Sue Lloyd-Davies—touted by Publishers Weekly as “a brutally tender debut” in a starred review—a snarky stray cat named Jack slips uninvited into their lives and into the house.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sue Lloyd-Davies
Sue Lloyd-Davies lives and writes in an old cottage in quirky Gulfport, Florida, where fuzzy cat, Arlo, loafs beside her keyboard and occasionally types an extra space or two into her stories. Caring for her mother, whose life — filled with friends, quilting and church — drifted into dementia, inspired her novel about Pinkie.
When she’s not writing, Sue can be found under the oaks handing out hazelnuts to rescue squirrel Owen or careening around the community center in a line dance. Visit her at Suelloyddavies.com
