Happy are the Happy

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An award-winning exploration of dreams and disillusionment, love and infidelity from the creator of global theatre sensation Art and God of Carnage. 1 novel. 18 people. 18 lives. Infinite combinations- families and friends, colleagues and patients, lovers and mourners... But sometimes a crowd is the loneliest place to be. An award-winning exploration of dreams and disillusionment, love and infidelity from the creator of global theatre sensation Art and God of Carnage.

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Fast becoming the hit of the summer... At times it's darkly comic, but there's loss and heartbreak, too -- Laurel Ives * Style, Sunday Times *
Reza has a sketch artist's ability to create pictures and atmosphere with a few careful strokes... Bittersweet, yet beautiful to read * Daily Mail *
She has a superpower for zeroing in on each beat of an argument, each buried emotion... Moments of simple joy stand out from the vividly awkward domestic tussles that surround them * The Times *
Sharply observant wit...a rather particular delight...the mistress of subtle detail -- Louise Jury * Independent *
Happy are the Happy is a spiky, brilliantly observed novel about marriage, infidelity, dreams and disillusion * Stella Magazine, Sunday Telegraph *

Author Bio

YASMINA REZA is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes. Her plays, Conversations After a Burial, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3 and God of Carnage, have been produced worldwide and translated into thirty-five languages. Her novels include Hammerklavier, Desolation, Adam Haberberg and Dawn, Dusk or Night. Her screenplay, Lulu Kreutz's Picnic, was made into a film directed by Didier Martiny.