Free Therapy

A major new talent * i * Wincingly funny and winningly honest * Daily Mail * In her debut short-story collection, Rebecca Ivory has taken all the tiny humiliations of life and made something so precise and articulate that it can feel mortifying to read... A short story collection that feels apt * Sunday Times * Arresting and inventive -- Sally Rooney, author of Normal People I ate it up in two sittings. Beneath these stories runs a pulsing darkness, a restless humour, a palpable and astute distrust. Here are all the ways we scam each other, but most of all ourselves -- Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes Her writing feels so fresh… What these stories evoke the most is a feeling of life not looking like you thought it would; of restlessness and ennui, shot through with moments of piercing revelation that made me put the book down and think, 'isn’t that a thing' several times -- Pandora Sykes, author of How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? The stories in Free Therapy are unerring, ferociously original, cooly controlled and queasy with revelation. They live viscerally in you for days afterward -- Colin Barrett, author of Homesickness Sharp, astute and painfully funny, Rebecca Ivory has written a powerful collection of stories. I genuinely couldn’t get enough -- Michael Magee, author of Close to Home Rebecca Ivory’s Free Therapy is rich, complex and sophisticated -- Nicole Flattery, author of Nothing Special Rebecca Ivory is a brutally honest and brilliant writer. Her stories are dark and unafraid, and are always told beautifully, shrewdly, stylishly. Oh, and she’s very funny. Here is a collection that teems with compassion and curiosity for the little interactions and the little falls that make us who we are -- John Patrick McHugh, author of Pure Gold