Consider Yourself Kissed

‘Consider Yourself Kissed is a love story like no other: charming, warm, heartfelt and funny but with a truly razor-like authenticity. I absolutely loved every moment and didn’t want it to end!’ * Liane Moriarty * ‘Consider Yourself Kissed is that rare thing: a novel that truly lives up to the hype.’ * Diana Reid * ’This summer’s must-read … A sparkly enjoyable romantic comedy like One Day and Normal People’ * The Times * ‘Buy this for yourself and then buy a few more copies for everyone you know.’ * Madeleine Gray, Saturday Paper * ‘Fresh and sparkling…This charming literary romance queries the endgame in romance fiction, the happily-ever-after, in a way that lingers.’ * Age * ‘Consider Yourself Kissed is a smart literary love story and an absorbing family drama. Jessica Stanley follows her characters over the years as they make their way in the private, intricate, fragile world they create for themselves, and in the always-changing larger world. This is a deeply appealing and winning novel.’ * Meg Wolitzer * ‘Fabulous…It’s clever, joyful, familiar and awkward, and so funny.’ * Nina Stibbe, author Reasons to Be Cheerful * ‘Sweet and tender.’ * Pandora Sykes, author of How Do We Know We’re Doing it Right? * ‘Utterly brilliant—so astonishingly clever, but with a core of love. It’s generous, it’s hopeful, it’s one of the very best grown-up love stories I have ever read. And wears its smartness so lightly, but it captures the strangeness of the past few years perfectly. I could not have adored it more.’ * Daisy Buchanan, author of How to Be a Grown-up * ‘Jessica Stanley’s principal subject is romance, which she renders—in all its mess and glory—masterfully. But the real delight in Consider Yourself Kissed is how the novel confidently thinks about love more broadly: the feeling we can have for family, for work, for art and books and our homes and our friends, for the very world around us. It is an exhilarating read, a marvel of a book.’ * Rumaan Alam, National Book Award finalist and NYT bestselling author of Leave the World Behind and Entitlement * ‘A clever and funny rom-com in the vein of Dolly Alderton's Good Material, Consider Yourself Kissed shows how relationships have to change to find an equitable balance for both partners.’ * ABC * ‘Balances literary depth and a breezy, engaging style, making Consider Yourself Kissed the elusive next Sorrow and Bliss… delivering a loveable, compelling novel about what it means to be a woman today.’ * Books+Publishing * ‘Deeply romantic…Funny, familiar and relatable.’ * Qantas Magazine * ‘A delightfully grounded romance and a treasure … very human.’ * Guardian * ’Suffused with wonder and joy.’ * Vogue * ‘As warm as a David Nicholls novel.’ * Stylist * 'Fresh and original... a brilliant book that hits all the right notes' * Good Housekeeping, Book of the Month * 'Charming... with quiet ingenuity and compassion' * Observer * ‘5 stars. This book is a triumph.’ * AU Review *