Happiness Forever

Happiness Forever ... there is so much rare humour and insight and sweetness and humanity in its pages'' Sheila Heti, author of True 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. It''s maybe six hundred times a day,'' Sylvie says, and then she stops and the therapist tilts her head. ''That I think about you,'' Sylvie goes on, the word you said so quietly as to be barely audible. Sylvie is only happy when she is at therapy. This is because Sylvie is in love with her therapist. She wants to kiss her, roll around on the floor with her, be adopted by her. She thinks about her every second they''re not together (roughly 167 hours and 10 minutes per week). She''s aware she has an obsession, but whether it is - as her therapist suggests - a case of extreme ''erotic transference'', or a lost person''s need to connect, Sylvie isn''t 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 don''t 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 she''s ready for a bravery of feeling.

Product details

• Authors: Adelaide Faith
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2025
• EAN: 9780008749019
• ISBN: 978-0-00-874901-9
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Romantic suspense, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Interior life, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary