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    Happy All the Time: With an introduction by Katherine Heiny

    Laurie Colwin

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    'Seriously wise, seriously wonderful, seriously comic - your life will be richer for it' Katherine Heiny

    Guido and Vicent - third cousins and best friends - spend their time lolling around and wondering who they will marry.

    Then, one wet Sunday afternoon in a museum, Gudio meets Holly. Precise about everything, Holly knows what she likes: pressed sheets, tea on a tray - and now, Guido.

    Soon after, Vincent falls for his misanthropic new colleague, Misty. She seems completely uninterested in love, until she agrees to go to dinner with Vincent.

    This exquisitely well-written and much-beloved novel follows the two couples through courtship, arguments, wedding plans and other perils, as they find a way to be happy (almost) all the time.

    A W&N Essential with an introduction from Katherine Heiny

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    Praise for Happy All the Time

    • It is charm distilled - Maria Semple

    • One of the most comforting, clever novels I know - Samantha Ellis

    • Sparkling and witty, it's like literary serotonin

    • - Sunday Express

    • An infallible recipe for happiness: read as much Laurie Colwin as you can - Emma Straub

    • Shimmering . . . funny . . . it made everything in my life seem a whole lot better - Cosmopolitan

    Laurie Colwin

    Laurie Colwin

    Laurie Colwin (1944-1992) was born in Manhattan and raised in Long Island, Chicago and Philadelphia. She attended Bard College and Columbia University and worked as a translator and book editor before selling her first story, at the age of twenty-five, to the New Yorker. She went on to publish eight critically acclaimed works of fiction and two beloved collections of essays and recipes - Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, 'if anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin.

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