Böcker av Hanna Jameson

'Jameson channels the righteous anger of a generation' Luzia Sauma'An eerie, fascinating, nihilistic triumph' Heather Darwent-----At a New York City wedding, on a sweltering summer night, four people are trying to be happy.Yun has everything he ever wanted, but somehow it's never enough.Emory is finally making her mark, but feels the shame more than the success.Andrew is trying to be honest, but has lied to himself his whole life.Fin can't resist falling in love, but can't help wrecking it all either.And then the world begins to end. The four of them watch as one of the wedding guests sits down and refuses to get back up. Soon it's happening across the world. Is it a choice or an illness?Because how can anyone be happy in a world where the only choice is to feel everything - or nothing at all?An intensely compulsive novel for anyone who has ever felt hopeful and helpless in one breath, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW is about how you keep living when the world is on fire. Perfect for fans of Emily John St. Mandel's Station Eleven, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Patricia Lockwood's Nobody is Talking About This and Naomi Alderman's The Power.-----Praise for Hanna Jameson:'Such a brilliant concept, perfectly executed' Araminta Hall, Hidden Depths'Furious and tender . . . cuts to the core of modern life' Jessica Moor, Keeper'A compelling meditation on fear, hope, grief and the difficulty of imagining a future in a world in crisis' The Bookseller'Yun, Emory, Andrew & Fin buried themselves into my heart' Nikki Smith, The Beach Party'Extraordinary' Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven'One of those books you can't stop reading, but don't want to end' TM Logan, The Holiday'Dark, compelling, original' CJ Tudor, The Burning Girls'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph

Two ex-cons are trapped on a nightmarish road trip to find Trent, a guy who screwed them over and disappeared. But now, after forty hours driving through yellow desert, what seemed real is no longer certain. Where did Trent stay? What did he do? Did he even exist at all?

The first in a series of menacing urban crime novels.