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This Happy

Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2020

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This Happy

著者: Niamh Campbell
ナレーター: Diedre O’Connell
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'A beautiful, wry love story' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY

'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans, author of ORDINARY PEOPLE

I have taken apart every panel of this, like an ornamental fan. But we stayed in the cottage for three weeks only, just three weeks, because it was cut short you see - cut short after just three weeks, when I'd left my entire life behind.

When Alannah was twenty-three, she met a man who was older than her - a married man - and fell in love. Things happened suddenly. They met in April, in the first bit of mild weather; and in August, they went to stay in rural Ireland, overseen by the cottage's landlady.

Six years later, when Alannah is newly married to another man, she sees the landlady from afar. Memories of those days spent in bliss, then torture, return to her. And the realisation that she has been waiting - all this time - to be rediscovered.
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A beautiful, wry love story (David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY)
I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences (Diana Evans, author of ORDINARY PEOPLE)
One of the year's most beautifully written books, THIS HAPPY traces the path to womanhood of Alannah from disastrous affair to no-less-comfortable marriage and beyond
If you loved Sally Rooney's NORMAL PEOPLE, read this novel ... Darkly romantic ... The moral ambiguities (and irreconcilable power struggles) inherent in the relationship are familiar territory for fans of CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS, but in many ways, the prose is less reminiscent of Rooney's clipped, email-honed style than of Eimear McBride's lyrical Joycean sentences
I tore through This Happy over the course of one sticky day. The story of a woman reflecting on the claustrophobic end of a past affair, it's sharp and bracing, with language almost balletic in its intensity. (Sophie Mackintosh)
Superb... This is a novel of psychological texture... Campbell can turn a sensory phrase... its opulent unhappiness is something to enjoy
She has already been compared with writers such as Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Claire Louise Bennett, and indeed Niamh Campbell's debut novel does add a distinctive new voice to Irish literature... Witty, fiery, wistful and even shocking, with engrossing heady prose, Campbell's style is unique
The quality of the writing is top-notch. Page after page of astute, deft observations ... Campbell holds her own against her contemporaries, writers like Claire-Louise Bennett, Sally Rooney, Nicole Flattery, who have set a high bar at home and abroad for fast-paced, truth-laced fiction ... THIS HAPPY is a layered and vibrant debut ... full of sensual, offbeat descriptions
A triumph of style... This book is made of ancient stuff. It is of the land and the landscape - replete with unashamedly ornate, arguably extraneous detail... She writes against the style du jour - sparse prose; tight, fast plots - in favour of something more rich and rebellious ... I heard tones of Joyce as I read - not only in the direct references ("the snot-green sea", Alannah's remark: 'he was my epiphany') - but also in the muscular, myth-laden prose... It is the best novel I have read all year. It snuck up on me like a ghost in the night. It spoke on a different frequency
The story of this relationship is interweaved with the present so closely that it feels almost overlaid, reading convincingly like a memory ... An exhilarating story
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