- Published: 15 July 2015
- ISBN: 9780099587323
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $22.99
Happy are the Happy

















- Published: 15 July 2015
- ISBN: 9780099587323
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $22.99
Reza has a sketch artist's ability to create pictures and atmosphere with a few careful strokes... Bittersweet, yet beautiful to read
Daily Mail
Sharply observant wit...a rather particular delight...the mistress of subtle detail
Louise Jury, Independent
Fascinating, yet moving...poetically and thoughtfully penned
UK Press Association
Reza has set herself a challenge in her latest novel, and she rises to it beautifully
Economist
Witty writing and astute observations...a fascinating, yet moving snapshot of the lives of a group of people who are inextricably linked in an intricate web
Irish Examiner
Happy are the Happy is a spiky, brilliantly observed novel about marriage, infidelity, dreams and disillusion
Stella Magazine, Sunday Telegraph
Fast becoming the hit of the summer... At times it's darkly comic, but there's loss and heartbreak, too
Laurel Ives, Style, Sunday Times
Reza's prose is natural, true and steeped in each character
The Skinny
She has a superpower for zeroing in on each beat of an argument, each buried emotion... Moments of simple joy stand out from the vividly awkward domestic tussles that surround them
The Times
Reza has form for nailing relationships in all their joy and ugliness. But she does so with the lightest, sharpest skewer imaginable
Harpers Bazaar
A funny, caustic book about how we all think we’re so different – when we’re painfully similar
Viv Groskop, Red
The author skillfully peels away the veneer of life to reveal the secrets seething within
Anita Sethi, Observer
Outré and witty
Madeleine Kingsley, Jewish Chronicle
This is a deft, shrewd, frequently anguished, occasionally hilarious investigation into the endless ways in which we make ourselves miserable
Sarah Crown, The Times Literary Supplement
With implacable wit and a dramatist’s sense of timing, Reza offers snapshots from the psyches of eighteen characters… The tone is wry, warm, and accepting
New Yorker