Happy All the Time

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A jewel of romantic comedy * New York Times * Uplifting, funny, generous and perspicacious (especially about love), Happy all the Time is one of the most comforting, clever novels I know. -- Samantha Ellis Featuring possibly the Loveliest line from a book ever - "she felt as well placed in the world as a fresh loaf of bread" - this novel from the witty, warm Colwin about two cousins' search for Love is like literary sunshine * i Paper * Feels utterly modern . . . A genuine romantic comedy, and a wise and affirming one at that . . . Happiness, Colwin suggests, is not something achieved once and for all, but a process, something you must work at all the time. It's a lesson that has held up for almost fifty years, and I expect it won't go out of date any time soon -- Sam Corbett * The Times * A pleasure . . . endless surprises and ultimately boundless joy . . . It would be difficult not to enjoy it all * New Yorker * Delicious with much wit . . . author and reader have the greatest fun * Sunday Telegraph * Rare and charming . . . refreshingly soothing * Company * Laurie Colwin was the best kind of master: human and humorous, full of wisdom and love. When am I happy all the time? When I have a stack of Laurie Colwin books beside me -- Emma Straub Shimmering . . . funny . . . it made everything in my life seem a whole lot better * Cosmopolitan * Amazing! Impossible to put down . . . sharply funny, altogether unusual. I recommend it highly * Newsweek * A funny, loving, celebratory book . . . in which everything is perfect * Boston Globe * Merry and bright and tender . . . written in exquisitely balanced sentences that taste just right. Comparison with Jane Austen is not out of order * New York Post * The cleverly curated new W&N Essentials range launches with Happy All The Time by Laurie Colwin. This sparkling and witty romantic comedy of manners... is like literary serotonin. -- Charlotte Heathcote * SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE * it abounds in good lines, aphorisms, advice to both the loved and the lovelorn * New York Times * An elegant, fresh, funny tale of four people in love . . . There's electricity here . . . Pure delight * Village Voice * Colwin's canny Manhattan pastorale strikes me as at least as much fun to read as Sense and Sensibility * Newsweek * Charming, funny, readable, smart, somewhere to go if you've already hoovered up every last mote of Nora Ephron. My paperback comes with an introduction by the great Katherine Heiny. I don't know what you're waiting for -- Nick Hornby The book I turn to most during times of romantic despair . . . As well as being enormously comforting it is also captivating, sharp, and very acute on the sexual and social mores of 70s New York - as well as speaking to more eternal philosophical concerns on what it means to be loved, and to love well in return -- Sophie Mackintosh * i Paper *