Estranged from his father and finding every attempt at happiness futile, Harley is on the verge of making a devastating final decision. It’s 2005 and Harley has dropped out of college to move home, back to rural England, where he works a dead-end job at a movie theater. A tender and generous novel about finding your people, getting vulnerable, and celebrating every joy-big or small.”- BuzzFeedĬould I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me? Moving, funny and tender, Small Joys is an epic novel about ordinary lives that introduces the world to an unforgettable cast of characters and a major new literary talent.“This funny and bighearted debut is an ode to queer friendship and chosen family. However, when figures from the past threaten to plunge Harley back into the depths of depression, his only hope of survival is Muddy and the small joys they create together. Harley starts to think that life may be worth living after all, while Muddy discovers things about himself that the lads down the rugby club may struggle to understand. In no time at all, they become inseparable. A keen birdwatcher, rugby fanatic and Oasis obsessive, he quickly becomes a devoted and loyal friend to Harley who finds his enthusiasm infectious and his dimples irresistible. Muddy is a person whose lust for his own life makes others feel better by association. Standing in the local woods one day, on the verge of doing something drastic and irreversible, his hand is stayed by a stranger: a tall husky guy who emerges from the bushes holding a pair of binoculars. Returning to his home on the outskirts of London, having just dropped out of an undergraduate course in music journalism, he is wracked by feelings of failure and inadequacy. ‘Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me?’ Harley is a young queer Black man struggling to find his way in mid-noughties Britain. ‘A captivatingly tender novel … It’s beautiful’ Natasha Onwuemezi, The Bookseller Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to find. The sensational debut novel about love, friendship and finding happiness in the most unexpected places.
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