'Seriously wise, seriously wonderful, seriously comic - your life will be richer for it' Katherine Heiny

Guido and Vicent - third cousins and best friends - spend their time lolling around and wondering who they will marry.

Then, one wet Sunday afternoon in a museum, Gudio meets Holly. Precise about everything, Holly knows what she likes: pressed sheets, tea on a tray - and now, Guido.

Soon after, Vincent falls for his misanthropic new colleague, Misty. She seems completely uninterested in love, until she agrees to go to dinner with Vincent.

This exquisitely well-written and much-beloved novel follows the two couples through courtship, arguments, wedding plans and other perils, as they find a way to be happy (almost) all the time.

A W&N Essential with an introduction from Katherine Heiny

"A jewel of romantic comedy" - New York Times

"Delicious with much wit ... author and reader have the greatest fun" - Sunday Telegraph

"Rare and charming ... refreshingly soothing" - Company

"Shimmering ... funny... it made everything in my life seem a whole lot better" - Cosmopolitan

"Amazing! Impossible to put down ... sharply funny, altogether unusual. I recommend it highly " - Newsweek

"A funny, loving, celebratory book ... in which everything is perfect" - Boston Globe

"Merry and bright and tender ... written in exquisitely balanced sentences that taste just right. Comparison with Jane Austen is not out of order" - New York Post

"The cleverly curated new W&N Essentials range launches with Happy All The Time by Laurie Colwin. This sparkling and witty romantic comedy of manners... is like literary serotonin." - SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE

"A pleasure ... endless surprises and ultimately boundless joy ... It would be difficult not to enjoy it all" - New Yorker

"it abounds in good lines, aphorisms, advice to both the loved and the lovelorn" - New York Times

"An elegant, fresh, funny tale of four people in love ... There's electricity here ... Pure delight" - Village Voice

"Colwin's canny Manhattan pastorale strikes me as at least as much fun to read as Sense and Sensibility" - Newsweek