Small Joys of Real Life

Allee Richards

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Hachette Australia
28 July 2021

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

LONGLISTED FOR THE MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR, ABIA AWARDS 2022

'a painful, beautiful novel that is a welcome addition to Australia's growing crop of women-centred millennial fiction' Books + Publishing

The night Eva shared a smile with Pat, something started. Two weeks later, lying together in her bed, Pat said, 'You can't live your life saying you'll get around to doing something you know will make you happy. You just have to do it.'

Eva didn't know how devastating those words would turn out to be. Pat dies and the aftershock leaves Eva on unsteady ground. She is pregnant. And she has to make a choice.

Suddenly, the world that she at times already questioned, her career, her roommates and friends, and life in the inner-city are all even harder to navigate. Her best friends, Sarah and Annie, are also dealing with the shifts and changes of their late twenties, and each of them will at times let the others down.

Small Joys of Real Life is a poignant and unpredictable novel from an exciting new literary talent about how the life you have can change in an instant. It's about friendship, desire, loss and growing up to accept that all you can do is be in the moment and look to find the joys in between.

'It's the little bursts of good in what could be described as a modern-millennial tragedy that makes Allee Richards' debut novel the poignant work that it is' The Guardian

'an exploration and, in many ways, celebration of the untidy years of young adult lives, and all the tragic and surprising loss, love and wonder that entails' The Age

'Richards brilliantly navigates the trials and tribulations of your late twenties' ArtsHub

By: Allee Richards
Imprint: Hachette Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 258mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 374g
ISBN: 9780733645471
ISBN 10: 073364547X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 28 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Allee Richards's short fiction has been published widely in Australian literary magazines and anthologies, including The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, The Best Australian Stories, New Australian Fiction, Best Summer Stories and Australian Book Review. Small Joys of Real Life is her first novel. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers and the 2020 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne.