Happiness Forever

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I was mesmerised by Happiness Forever there is so much rare humour and insight and sweetness and humanity in its pages Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour

A hilarious, beguiling 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 theyre not together (roughly 167 hours and 10 minutes per week). Shes aware she has an obsession, but whether it is as her therapist suggests a case of extreme erotic transference, or a lost persons need to connect, Sylvie isnt sure.

Beyond therapy, Sylvie has what she considers to be a small life: a job as a veterinary nurse, her little brain-damaged dog, Curtains, and a new friend Chloe who she met on the beach. When the therapist delivers some devastating news, Sylvie has to imagine new and lasting ways of coping (that dont include being adopted by the therapist). Her world has begun to open up, inching beyond the fear that has confined her until now, and she must decide whether shes ready for a bravery of feeling.

In this stunning debut novel, Adelaide Faith encapsulates the great vulnerability, difficulty and joy of being alive.

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I was mesmerized by Happiness Forever, and helplessly caught in its spell from the first page. There is so much rare humour and insight and sweetness and humanity in its pages, and a true and ringing voice. It's a beautiful book about longing, and the feeling that one is not a self, and being hurt, and the vulnerability of simply being alive, and friendship, and obsession, and therapy. I wanted to pass it on to all my friends Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour

Author Bio

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.