The Happy Couple: A Novel
Published:2023
Pages:288
ISBN:9780063330481
Categories:
Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & DivorceFiction / WomenFiction / LGBTQ+ / GeneralFiction / LGBTQ+ / GayFiction / LiteraryFiction / Romance / ContemporaryFiction / Humorous / GeneralFiction / FriendshipFiction / Family Life / SiblingsFiction / Psychological

The Happy Couple: A Novel

by Naoise Dolan

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“Daring . . . a brilliant contemporary novel.”—Colm Tóibín 

An intimate, sharply funny contemporary novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart

Meet Celine and Luke. For all intents and purposes, the happy couple.

Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more interested in piano than domestic life) plan to marry in a year.

Archie (the best man) should be moving on from his unrequited love for Luke and up the corporate ladder, but he finds himself utterly stuck.

Phoebe (the bridesmaid and Celine’s sister) just wants to get to the bottom of Luke’s frequent unexplained disappearances.

And Vivian (a wedding guest) is the only one with any emotional distance and observes her friends like ants in a colony.

As the wedding approaches and their five lives intersect, these characters will each look for a path to the happily ever after—but does it lie at the end of an aisle?

In her wry, sprightly, and unmistakable voice, Naoise Dolan makes the marriage plot entirely her own in a sparkling ensemble novel that is both ferociously clever and supremely enjoyable.