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The Happy Couple

A Novel

by Naoise Dolan

Length 5 hours 30 minutes

Language English

Narrators Ayoola Smart & Bert Seymour

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“Celine and Luke are supposed to be a happy couple - it's why they're engaged. However, this portrait of their engagement is rendered by many hands, including family members and exes, who all want to have their say on the coupling. Humor, romance, secrets, and doubts persist as the wedding day looms closer. A thoughtful and clever picture of a couple and all the things that hold them together - and everything that threatens to pull them apart. ”
— Delaney • Brilliant Books Audio

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Daring . . . a brilliant contemporary novel.”—Colm Tóibín

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart

Meet Celine and Luke. For all intents and purposes, the happy couple.

Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more interested in piano than domestic life) plan to marry in a year.

Archie (the best man) should be moving on from his love for Luke and up the corporate ladder, but he finds himself utterly stuck.

Phoebe (the bridesmaid and Celine’s sister) just wants to get to the bottom of Luke’s frequent unexplained disappearances.

And Vivian (a wedding guest) is the only one with any emotional distance and observes her friends like ants in a colony.

As the wedding approaches and their five lives intersect, these characters will each look for a path to the happily ever after—but does it lie at the end of an aisle?

In her wry, sprightly, and unmistakable voice, Naoise Dolan makes the marriage plot entirely her own in a sparkling ensemble novel that is both ferociously clever and supremely enjoyable.

Fiction LGBTQIA+ Fiction

Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. Her debut novel, Exciting Times, was a Sunday Times bestseller, widely translated, and optioned for television. She has been short-listed and long-listed for several prizes, including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She lives in Berlin.