calmchowder 's review for:

The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan

4.0

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I read this author's "Exciting Times" and while I didn't love it, I could see the potential, and I couldn't wait to see what she did next. As I had hoped this was significantly better. It's very much a character and environment study that toys with the thought that no one person can know you fully; their perception of you is colored by the environment, their own idiosyncrasies, relationship histories, and the many other components of the human web. It does this really well in such a small number of pages. Not fast-paced by any means, but I didn't want to put it down.