![]() ![]() ![]() The story is told from the different perspectives of a large ensemble cast: Celine and Luke Celine’s sister Phoebe Luke’s ex-boyfriend Archie and Luke’s old friend and ex Vivian. The story then charts the year leading up to the wedding day as the skeletons dance the hokey pokey in between. As the book opens, Celine and Luke seem to decide to get married as a result of a bout of intellectual brinkmanship that ends in stalemate. She wears gloves to protect her hands and visualises all 88 keys of the piano in her head so she can “play” a piece wherever she is. ![]() Where Exciting Times dealt with a love triangle, The Happy Couple is more of a love hexagon, with all of the added complications.Ĭeline is a professional pianist who reserves her heart for music. Three years after Exciting Times dazzled its way through the early days of lockdown as one of the brightest, cleverest and funniest debuts of the year, Dolan has followed up with a will-they won’t-they story about twentysomethings Celine and Luke, who are engaged but whose skeletons have escaped from the closet and are dressed up as bridesmaids and groomsmen. If Dublin writer Naoise Dolan’s 2020 debut, Exciting Times, was a 21st-century remix of an Edith Wharton novel, her much-anticipated second novel, The Happy Couple, is surely Dolan’s Shakespeare mash-up – A Midsummer Night’s Dream rewritten for Gen Z. ![]()
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