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Outside therapy, Sylvie has a quiet life: a job as a veterinary nurse, a tattoo artist friend and seaside walks with her brain-damaged dog, Curtains.             When her therapist delivers some devastating news, Sylvie finds she must imagine new and lasting ways of coping (that don't include being adopted by the therapist). 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I loved it from start to finish. For fans of Big Swiss!’             ‘A beautifully crafted debut, filled with heart, wit and a deep understanding of what it means to be human’             ‘Humorous, bizarre and touching’             ‘So charged and insightful and provocative … I recommend it highly’","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51201986953489,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51201987969297,"sku":"NGR9780008749019","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51776755630353,"sku":"GOR014349191","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52416013959441,"sku":"GOR014519874","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52497907515665,"sku":"NLS9780008749019","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53333391507729,"sku":"GOR014853571","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0008749019.jpg?v=1750692885"},{"product_id":"happiness-forever-book-adelaide-faith-9780374608668","title":"Happiness Forever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With tenderness, wit, and disarming honesty, \u003ci\u003eHappiness Forever\u003c\/i\u003e is . . . well, I don't know exactly. A love story? A journey of self discovery? A strange slice of life? It's all of the above, and more. Adelaide's book is the kind you can read in a day but sticks with you forever.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--Madeline Cash, author of \u003ci\u003eLost Lambs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A complete refreshment and uplift of energy: a hilarious, beguiling first novel for the head and the heart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sylvie is happy only when she's in therapy. This is because Sylvie is in love with her therapist; she thinks about her every second they're not together (roughly 167 hours and 10 minutes per week). In that room, Sylvie is able to talk about everything: the false hope promised by eighties music; what a dog's inner life is really like; and how sad she, Sylvie is, outside that room. 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We love you.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this wonderful, hilarious, stunning debut, Adelaide Faith captures the vulnerability, difficulty, and joy of personhood, of being a person, of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51474460213521,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51474460311825,"sku":"NIN9780374608668","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51602370494737,"sku":"CIN0374608660G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53075793346833,"sku":"CIN0374608660VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":53397548597521,"sku":"CIN0374608660LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53450444308753,"sku":"NGR9780374608668","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374608660.jpg?v=1751358118"},{"product_id":"happiness-forever-book-adelaide-faith-9780008749026","title":"Happiness Forever","description":"‘I wanted to pass it on to all my friends’ SHEILA HETI                          ‘Remarkable clarity and humour’              VOGUE                        ‘Funny and tender’ PANDORA SYKES             ‘Sticks with you forever’ MADELINE CASH                          A tragicomic and utterly original debut novel following a woman trying to make sense of her life and herself as she falls in love with her therapist.                        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