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The Happy Couple


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Contemporary Fiction,
  • Relationship Fiction,
  • Ensemble Cast
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Wedding novels where every friend has their own agenda
  • Sharp humor dissecting modern relationships and messy loyalties
  • Ensemble casts with shifting perspectives and sly observations
Publisher Description

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.

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