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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
[A] warm, witty and truthful love story... Duffy combines her trademark wry cynicism with a softer, more tender approach as she tackes serious illness and its repercussions' TIME OUT
Duffy is best known for her sharp insights and sharper wit, and both are on display here... Brave, understated and unforgettable' DAILY MAIL
When Jack and Cindy meet at a friend's party they are immediately attracted to one another. Cindy, a celebrated mapmaker, traces the contours of their relationship, from New York to LA, from first passion to real love.
After five years together, Cindy and Jack think they have tested their love to its limits. But then Cindy falls dangerously ill, and the couple must face the hardest test of all.
Told with wit, tenderness and unflinching honesty, STATE OF HAPPINESS is a captivating story of love and loss from a writer at the height of her powers.
'STATE OF HAPPINESS is a sharp, sobering cocktail spiked with metaphysic, immense good humour and understanding. Stella Duffy gets better and better' Ali Smith, author of HOTEL WORLD
Praise for State Of Happiness
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Both beautiful and challenging - GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
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Brave, understated and unforgettable - DAILY MAIL
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A sharp, sobering cocktail spiked with metaphysic, immense good humour and understanding... Duffy gets better and better. - Ali Smith
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It is a pleasure and a relief to read someone who is not only first class but it also thorougly in tune with today's attitdues, feelings and language. - THE TIMES
Stella Duffy
Dr Stella Duffy is an award-winning writer of seventeen novels, over seventy short stories and fourteen plays. In 2016 she received the OBE for services to the arts. Stella is also a psychotherapist working in private practice and for a low-cost community mental health service. She has recently completed her doctorate in Existential Psychotherapy, researching the embodied experience of post-menopause.
Her website is: www.stelladuffy.blog
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