Cover art for Happiness and Love
Published
Doubleday, July 2025
ISBN
9781529930160
Format
Hardcover, 288 pages
Dimensions
22.2cm × 13.8cm × 2.5cm

Happiness and Love

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An unnamed narrator who has fled a set of friends she despised, who bring out the very worst in her and each other, finds herself once more sat at their dinner table for a single, hideous evening.

Years after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself back on the Lower East Side attending a dinner party hosted by Eugene and Nicole - an artist-curator couple - and attended by their pretentious circle. It's the evening after the funeral of their mutual friend, a failed actress, and if the narrator once loved and admired Eugene and Nicole and their important friends, she now despises them all. Most of all, however, she despises herself for being lured back to this cavernous apartment, to this hollow, bourgeois social set, for a dinner party that isn't even being thrown in their deceased friend's honour, but in the honour of an up-and-coming actress who is by now several hours late.

As the guests sip at their drinks and await the actress's arrival, the narrator, from her vantage point in the corner seat of a white sofa entertains herself - and us - with a silent, tender, merciless takedown.


'Zeitgeist and timeless, cynical but not soulless... For anyone who has ever wondered \"What the hell am I doing here?\" Fabulous!' Melissa Broder, author of Milk Fed

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