Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781910702543
Length: 336 Pages
Dimensions: 222mm x 31mm x 144mm
Weight: 477g
RRP: £14.99
'I want to be a good person. And I want to be happy. So happy it hurts. I need you to help me with that.’
Ottila McGregor is thirty years old and has decided it’s time to sort her life out. She’s going to quit drinking, stop cheating and finally find true happiness. Easy, right?
Of course not.
For a start, there’s Grace, her best friend, who believes self-improvement is for people in their forties. Next there’s Mina, her sister, who is mentally ill, and it might be Ottila’s fault. And then there’s Thales, the Greek guy who works in the hospital cafeteria. He's probably the best, most dangerous person Ottila’s ever met.
To make sense of it all, Ottila keeps a scrapbook of everything: emails, receipts, tickets, letters, her therapy transcripts, a boyfriend's note rescued from the bin... The result is an infectious one-off of a novel that makes you wince and laugh in equal measure, and which asks the question: what does it take to be so happy it hurts?
**Shortlisted for the DIVA Rising Star Literary Award**
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781910702543
Length: 336 Pages
Dimensions: 222mm x 31mm x 144mm
Weight: 477g
RRP: £14.99
"[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 Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag... As much as you’re rooting for Ottila to get her man, that’s not the point; the point is whether she can gain the moral wisdom to live a better kind of life. She’s an Emma steeped in ethanol."