Indeed, we are all currently experiencing a similar renaissance after the forced austerity of the pandemic. Happy Hour is about beauty and the essence of simple things, but also oysters and luxury and - why not? - the old-school fun of not knowing where the night will lead. The reader not only empathizes with but becomes one with Isa, the protagonist, and her flow of consciousness. It is light, but it also speaks of loneliness, difficulties, yet always with an optimistic streak. Every word evokes a sensation from our lives that lingers with the turn of the page. Marlowe Granados’s novel is a delight to read and to hear. They flirt with celebrities and work as portrait models. They navigate between various rendezvous, especially gallery openings. Two best friends, both twenty-one years old, come to the city to live a summer of delightfully hot despairing fun - on a budget, obviously. Amanda Luna Ballerini spoke with Marlowe Granados on the occasion of her debut novel, Happy Hour, recently published by Verso Books.
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Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity, verve, and wit."ĭrawing on Queen Victoria’s diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin―creator and writer of the new PBS Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter―brings the young nineteenth-century monarch, who would go on to reign for 63 years, richly to life in this magnificent novel.Įarly one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. "Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. With this knowledge, she finds parallels between her own burgeoning womanhood, her personal desire for freedom and the struggles of her oppressed country. 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