
The funny, propulsive new novel about hating your friends, hating what they bring out in you, hating how you pander to them, the perfect satirical summer read for fans of Emma Cline, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Ottessa Moshfegh.A LitHub most anticipated book of 2025'Exceptionally funny and entertaining' Katy Hessel, bestselling author of The Story of Art Without Men'A gorgeous book on being a hater, and I inhaled this in one sitting' StylistYears after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself once more at their dinner table for a single, hideous evening.It's the day after the funeral of their mutual friend, a failed actress and Eugene and Nicole, an artistcurator couple are hosting a dinner party. If the narrator once loved and admired the couple 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 upandcoming 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.A satire about friendship, capitalism, culture, and art, Happiness and Love is the razorsharp new novel from an exciting
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The funny, propulsive new novel about hating your friends, hating what they bring out in you, hating how you pander to them, the perfect satirical summer read for fans of Emma Cline, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Ottessa Moshfegh.A LitHub most anticipated book of 2025'Exceptionally funny and entertaining' Katy Hessel, bestselling author of The Story of Art Without Men'A gorgeous book on being a hater, and I inhaled this in one sitting' StylistYears after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself once more at their dinner table for a single, hideous evening.It's the day after the funeral of their mutual friend, a failed actress and Eugene and Nicole, an artistcurator couple are hosting a dinner party. If the narrator once loved and admired the couple 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 upandcoming 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.A satire about friendship, capitalism, culture, and art, Happiness and Love is the razorsharp new novel from an exciting
Binding: Hardback;288 pages; Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 508 g; Dimensions: 223 x 146 x 29
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