Happiness Forever
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Descrizione dell’editore
‘I wanted to pass it on to all my friends’ SHEILA HETI
‘Remarkable clarity and humour’ VOGUE
‘Funny and tender’ PANDORA SYKES
‘Sticks with you forever’ MADELINE CASH
A tragicomic and utterly original debut novel following a woman trying to make sense of her life and herself as she falls in love with her therapist.
Sylvie is only happy when she is at therapy. This is because Sylvie is in love with her therapist.
She wants to kiss her and roll around on the floor with her. She thinks about her every second they’re not together (roughly 167 hours and 10 minutes per week). Outside therapy, Sylvie has a quiet life: a job as a veterinary nurse, a tattoo artist friend and seaside walks with her brain-damaged dog, Curtains.
When her therapist delivers some devastating news, Sylvie finds she must imagine new and lasting ways of coping (that don't include being adopted by the therapist). As her world begins to open up, Sylvie wonders, is she finally ready for a bravery of feeling?
‘Funny and thoughtful, this novel is a meditative balm to all who worry’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE
‘A humorous portrait of trauma and obsession’ ANOTHER
‘Jaw-dropping, exhilarating, completely original’ JESSICA STANLEY, author of Consider Yourself Kissed
‘Disarmingly sweet’ NICOLA DINAN, author of Disappoint Me
‘A book full of wisdom … Clever and funny’ DAILY MAIL
‘Had me hopelessly charmed from its opening sentence’ AMY KEY, author of Arrangements in Blue
‘A fever dream of a novel … For fans of Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman’ SHARLENE TEO, author of Ponti
Readers love Happiness Forever ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐:
‘Utterly beguiling … a truly memorable read’
‘Quite honestly couldn’t put it down’
‘An utter joy to read! I loved it from start to finish. For fans of Big Swiss!’
‘A beautifully crafted debut, filled with heart, wit and a deep understanding of what it means to be human’
‘Humorous, bizarre and touching … A very strong debut!’
‘So charged and insightful and provocative … I recommend it highly’
About the author
Adelaide Faith worked as an editor in the Schools department of Channel 4 Television before training to be a Veterinary Nurse at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. Her short fiction has appeared online in Forever Magazine, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Maudlin House, Farewell Transmission and ExPat Press. She lives in Hastings, UK with her daughter and dogs.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Faith's witty and irreverent debut, a British woman develops an unshakable obsession with her therapist. Sylvie, a veterinarian nurse, scrolled through 23 pages of therapists before choosing the "only one... who didn't strike her as too annoying to talk to." After a few sessions, Sylvia spots her unnamed therapist on the street while the two women are out walking their dogs, and she's overcome with desire for the therapist's love and approval ("She felt she might be saved.... There was a sense that a great freedom was close"). Instead of greeting her therapist, though, she picks up her dog and runs away. As the sessions unfold, the reader learns Sylvia has a history of fixations on unattainable people, such as a crime writer whose attention she sought by presenting him with a drawing of his dog. In the third act, the therapist delivers upsetting news, prompting Sylvie to search for the strength to rely on herself. Faith's razor-sharp prose and Sylvie's fanciful thinking sustain the offbeat narrative. Readers will fall in love with this meditative and heartfelt novel.
