Rebecca Ivory

Wincingly funny and winningly honest

In her debut short-story collection, Rebecca Ivory has taken all the tiny humiliations of life and made something so precise and articulate that it can feel mortifying to read... A short story collection that feels apt

I ate it up in two sittings. Beneath these stories runs a pulsing darkness, a restless humour, a palpable and astute distrust. Here are all the ways we scam each other, but most of all ourselves

The stories in Free Therapy are unerring, ferociously original, cooly controlled and queasy with revelation. They live viscerally in you for days afterward

Prepare to feel the hot wind of humiliation, via a series of vivid short stories. This debut collection from a smart young writer turns a keen eye on uncertain and untrustworthy relationships

Funny, clever and true, read the unmissable short story collection about modern relationships 
 
'Brilliant… This collection covers themes on sex, friendship and work and dives into what it means to be human' STYLIST 
 
'So precise and articulate' SUNDAY TIMES 
 
‘Arresting and inventive’ SALLY ROONEY 
 
'I couldn't get enough' MICHAEL MAGEE 
 
Two teenage girls fixate on each other's bodies; a woman encounters an ex and reflects on the women's group that saved her; an older man's buried grief emerges in encounter with a woman driving a 4×4; and a waitress lacks the money to fix an impacted tooth as the cracks in her life begin to show. 
 
Free Therapy takes us into the inner lives of women and men who are versed in the language of therapy, possessed with the self-knowledge needed to change their lives, but finding themselves unwilling to doing so. As her characters try and fail to connect, Rebecca Ivory reveals the ways in which we posture and present, and the insecurities that lie beneath. 
 
‘Her writing feels so fresh’ PANDORA SYKES 
 
'A major new talent' I

Rebecca Ivory

Praise for Free Therapy

Arresting and inventive

A major new talent

Wincingly funny and winningly honest

Arresting and inventive

A major new talent

Wincingly funny and winningly honest

Arresting and inventive

A major new talent

Wincingly funny and winningly honest

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