{"product_id":"happiness-and-love","title":"Happiness and Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe funny, propulsive new novel about hating your friends, hating what they bring out in you, hating how you pander to them, the perfect satirical summer read for fans of Emma Cline, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Ottessa Moshfegh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLitHub \u003c\/i\u003emost anticipated book of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eExceptionally funny and entertaining\u003c\/b\u003e’ Katy Hessel, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Art Without Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A \u003cb\u003egorgeous book \u003c\/b\u003eon being a hater, and \u003cb\u003eI inhaled this\u003c\/b\u003e in one sitting’ \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYears after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself once more at their dinner table for a single, hideous evening.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s the day after the funeral of their mutual friend, a failed actress and – Eugene and Nicole, an artist-curator couple – are hosting a dinner party. If the narrator once loved and admired the couple and their important friends, she now despises them all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of all, however, she despises herself for being lured back to this cavernous apartment, to this hollow, bourgeois social set, for a dinner party that isn’t even being thrown in their deceased friend’s honour, but in the honour of an up-and-coming actress who is by now several hours late.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the guests sip at their drinks and await the actress’s arrival, the narrator, from her vantage point in the corner seat of a white sofa entertains herself - and us - with a silent, tender, merciless takedown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA satire about friendship, capitalism, culture, and art, \u003ci\u003eHappiness and Love \u003c\/i\u003eis the razor-sharp new novel from an exciting literary voice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Bracing and funny and fiercely clever’ \u003c\/b\u003eOrlando Whitfield, Nero-award listed author of\u003ci\u003e All that Glitters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘An ecstatic performance of heightened perception’ \u003c\/b\u003eChris Kraus, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Zeitgeist and timeless, cynical but not soulless. Fabulous!’ \u003c\/b\u003eMelissa Broder, author of\u003ci\u003e Milk Fed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pisces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250089709912,"sku":"9781529930160","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529930160_e65bf073-9fdf-475d-b04b-f3ffa042e747.jpg?v=1778733081","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/happiness-and-love","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}