Consider Yourself Kissed
14.99 JOD
Description
‘Clever, joyful, familiar, and so funny’ NINA STIBBE’A deeply appealing novel’ MEG WOLITZER’Sweet and tender’ PANDORA SYKES***What’s the grown-up meaning of ‘happily ever after’?When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and (he insists) a quarter of an inch taller than the average British male. His charming four-year-old daughter, Zora, only adds to his appeal.But ten years on, something important is missing from the life Coralie and Adam have built. Or maybe, having gained everything she dreamed of, Coralie has lost something she once had: herself.Set against an eventful decade that included the soap opera of five Prime Ministers plus Brexit and Covid, Consider Yourself Kissed puts the subjects of love and family on a grand stage, showing how the intimate dramas in our homes inescapably compete for energy and attention with the shared public dramas of our times.Consider Yourself Kissed is an unforgettable literary love story which effortlessly balances sweetness with bite, the public with the personal, and humour with heart.***’Funny, tender, authentic and incredibly moving’ JENNIE GODFREY’So astonishingly clever, but with a core of love’ DAISY BUCHANAN’A proper grown-up love story’ BETH MORREY’Consider me smitten’ CHRIS POWER
Additional information
Weight | 0.7 kg |
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Dimensions | 4 × 15.3 × 23.4 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 352 |
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Year Published | 2025-5-8 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 1529154774 |
About The Author | Jessica Stanley is an Australian novelist living in East London. She grew up in Melbourne, studied in Canberra, and worked in journalism, on the set of the TV show Neighbours, for the trade union movement, and on progressive political campaigns. Moving to the UK in 2011, she has been working as a freelance advertising copywriter and strategist. She has a long-running email newsletter for writers and readers: jessicastanley.substack.com |
Review Quote | Consider Yourself Kissed is a smart literary love story and an absorbing family drama. Jessica Stanley follows her characters over the years as they make their way in the private, intricate, fragile world they create for themselves, and in the always-changing larger world. This is a deeply appealing and winning novel |
Other text | Fabulous . . . It's clever, joyful, familiar and awkward, and so funny. |