A new young-adult novel by actor Angourie Rice, and her mother, playwright Kate Rice, is coming in 2026, People magazine reports.
Candlewick Press will publish the duo’s My Wonderful Disgrace next spring. It calls the novel “a deliciously dark comedy of errors about unrequited love, manipulation, misunderstandings, student protests, and the tragic fate of one innocent bystander of a goat.”
Angourie Rice, known for her roles in films including The Nice Guys, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Mean Girls, and Kate Rice made their collaborative literary debut in May with Stuck Up and Stupid, a young-adult romance novel that followed Lily, a young woman who has just graduated high school, and who crosses paths with Dorian, an aloof movie star. A critic for Kirkus called the book “a frothy and fun retelling” of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
My Wonderful Disgrace will tell the story of Amy and Leo, who go as each other’s dates to a dance that doesn’t go as planned. “In their second novel, acclaimed mother-daughter duo Angourie Rice and Kate Rice draw on pacy journal entries, interviews, texts, and school newsletters to reconstruct a night gone terribly and hilariously wrong,” Candlewick says.
“We all make mistakes, reality rarely matches up to expectations and sometimes things go right off the rails,” the Rices told People. “In a world where things often go wrong, we want our readers to know: It’s what you do next that counts.”
My Wonderful Disgrace is slated for publication on May 12, 2026.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
