Everyone's on antidepressants, suffering from Post Romantic Stress Disorder - especially Daphne, who's just been severely chucked by lily-livered Donnie. Being unhappy is embarrassing, and therefore intolerable, so everyone's secretly on the happy pills. After a lot of soup, a soupcon of unseemly relationships, a few deaths and an abundance of life-affirming triumphs, 'pro-joy' is mooted by Pierce as the way to go. But is it really?

Author Biography

The author of four novels and numerous short stories and plays, Laura Marney is a Creative Writing Tutor at Glasgow University. Her first novel, No Wonder I Take a Drink, was voted by the public in The List magazine poll as one of the Top 20 Scottish books of all time.