Happy are the Happy

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