Anneliese Mackintosh
Praise for So Happy It Hurts
[A] raw, funny and untidily generous novel... Ottila belongs to the great sisterhood of the Female Fuck-Up. Not the eroticised trainwrecks male writers love to invent, but the real-deal ones like Phoebe Walle ...
Sarah Ditum, Guardian
This lovely, quirky novel will appeal to fans of Miranda July and Sheila Heti.
Sarra Manning, Red
I loved the novel’s strong sense of place and the picture it paints of a sparky, inner-city singleton trying to stay on the straight and narrow. Funny, bleak and heart-warming, sometimes all at the same time.
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
[A] raw, funny and untidily generous novel... Ottila belongs to the great sisterhood of the Female Fuck-Up. Not the eroticised trainwrecks male writers love to invent, but the real-deal ones like Phoebe Walle ...
Sarah Ditum, Guardian
This lovely, quirky novel will appeal to fans of Miranda July and Sheila Heti.
Sarra Manning, Red
I loved the novel’s strong sense of place and the picture it paints of a sparky, inner-city singleton trying to stay on the straight and narrow. Funny, bleak and heart-warming, sometimes all at the same time.
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
[A] raw, funny and untidily generous novel... Ottila belongs to the great sisterhood of the Female Fuck-Up. Not the eroticised trainwrecks male writers love to invent, but the real-deal ones like Phoebe Walle ...
Sarah Ditum, Guardian
This lovely, quirky novel will appeal to fans of Miranda July and Sheila Heti.
Sarra Manning, Red
I loved the novel’s strong sense of place and the picture it paints of a sparky, inner-city singleton trying to stay on the straight and narrow. Funny, bleak and heart-warming, sometimes all at the same time.
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail