I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY

Announcing the arrival of a major talent, I HOPE YOU''RE HAPPY is more a warning than a wish. With this collection of haunting and haunted stories, Marni Appleton immerses us in a world of fleeting encounters, empty couplings, break ups, bust ups, threesomes and ghosts, giving us a kaleidoscopic overview of twenty-first century life. Photos of women eating go viral, a cookie communicates a threat, and women working dead-end jobs become entangled in the performances around them. Everyday experiences of friendship, family, dating and desire catapult the reader into a creepy vortex of horror. Characters reveal themselves in slippery glimpses, through positive affirmations, social media accounts and secret appetites.

About the author

Marni Appleton is a writer living in London. She holds a PhD in creative-critical writing from the University of East Anglia. Her writing has been published in literary and academic journals including Banshee, The Tangerine, Contemporary Women's Writing and Comparative American Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Marni Appleton
• Publisher: Turnaround
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.08.2025
• EAN: 9781911648871
• ISBN: 978-1-911648-87-1
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 266 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Guides; FICTION / General, HUMOR / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Humour, Social networking, Social media / social networking, Fiction: general and literary, COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media