This Happy

''A beautiful, wry love story'' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY

''I love this woman''s writing. Golden sentences'' Diana Evans, author of ORDINARY PEOPLE

''One of the year''s most beautifully written books, THIS HAPPY traces the path to womanhood of Alannah from disastrous affair to no-less-comfortable marriage and beyond'' The i, Best Books of 2020 So Far

''If you loved Sally Rooney''s NORMAL PEOPLE, read thisnovel ... Darklyromantic... Reminiscent ofEimear McBride''s lyrical Joycean sentences'' Vogue

''The best novel I have read all year'' Sunday Business Post

I have taken apart every panel of this, like an ornamental fan. But we stayed in the cottage for three weeks only, just three weeks, because it was cut short you see - cut short after just three weeks, when I''d left my entire life behind.

When Alannah was twenty-three, she met a man who was