Happiness Forever by Faith, Adelaide
Happiness Forever by Faith, Adelaide

Happiness Forever

A complete refreshment and uplift of energy: a hilarious, beguiling first novel for the head and the...
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Author: Adelaide Faith
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Happiness Forever by Faith, Adelaide

Happiness Forever

$40.25
Happiness Forever by Faith, Adelaide

Happiness Forever

$40.25
Author: Adelaide Faith
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A complete refreshment and uplift of energy: a hilarious, beguiling first novel for the head and the heart.

Sylvie is happy only when she's in therapy. This is because Sylvie is in love with her therapist; she thinks about her every second they're not together (roughly 167 hours and 10 minutes per week). In that room, Sylvie is able to talk about everything: the false hope promised by eighties music; what a dog's inner life is really like; and how sad she, Sylvie is, outside that room. She's aware she has an obsession, but whether it's some flavor of erotic transference or a lost person's need to connect, Sylvie isn't sure.

Outside therapy Sylvie has what she considers to be a small life: a job as a veterinary nurse, companionship from her tattoo artist friend via text, and seaside walks with her brain-damaged dog, Curtains. But maybe therapy is making a difference, inviting her to imagine possibilities--possibilities that include a new friend she meets on the beach.

When the therapist starts to prepare Sylvie for the terrible fact that all treatment has to come to an end, Sylvie can't stop herself from imagining sleeping in her car parked outside the therapist's house. That won't work. She has to be brave. Be brave, Sylvie! We love you.

In this wonderful, hilarious, stunning debut, Adelaide Faith captures the vulnerability, difficulty, and joy of personhood, of being a person, of being alive.

Author: Adelaide Faith
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.76w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780374608668


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/10/2025
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2025
Library Journal 03/21/2025 pg. 1
Booklist 04/01/2025 pg. 34

About the Author
Adelaide Faith worked as an editor in the Schools Department of Channel 4 before training to be a veterinary nurse at Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, after which she worked as a nurse at the RSPCA and the PDSA. Her short fiction has appeared in Forever Magazine, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Maudlin House, Farewell Transmission, ExPat Press, and Stone of Madness Press. She is a member of Chelsea Hodson's Morning Writing Club, and she lives in Hastings with her young daughter and old dog, Pierrot.
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