Something Like Happiness
From the multi-award-winning author of Only Here, Only Now
$47.90
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
Frazer and Caitlin have come a long way without ever leaving their small grey town. They were once teenage sweethearts, but life has now got serious: the flat they share is barely habitable, money is tight, and their autistic son is already struggling at school.
Caitlin dreams of fresh carpets and clean walls, but for Frazer Apex Court is the only home he has known. It’s where his parents lived and died and where the memory of them remains.
He’s asked Caitlin to marry him twic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399607957 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399607952 |
| Author: | Tom Newlands |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Phoenix |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 152mm x 232mm |
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Critics Review
Newlands writes beautifully about the small, easily missed moments through which life and love are revealed. A subtle, humane and quietly moving novel – Nathan Filer
Something Like Happiness grabbed me from the first sentence. Vividly drawn, affectionate and tender, the characters burst from the page and I wanted to shake them and hug them by turns. A brilliant and compelling portrait of a couple wrestling with the need for change and the comfort of familiarity – Lucy Apps
Tom Newlands has done it again. A poignant examination of grief, family and the limits of love in a world working against you. With unstoppable wit and red-hot dialogue, Something Like Happiness effortlessly transports you inside its characters’ worlds as they grapple with the lives they inherited and the ones they deserve – Gab Torr
A beautiful novel, written with grace, clarity and tenderness. Newlands conveys the generational inheritance of our political past and present with subtlety * Scotsman *
A gorgeous, sad vision of marginal lives, full of love and grief and anger and pain. Newlands is always alive to the everyday, offhand beauty of the world. Remarkable * Herald *
Tom Newlands
Tom Newlands is a neurodivergent writer from Scotland. His debut novel Only Here, Only Now won the McKitterick Prize, was runner-up for the ADCI Literary Prize, shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, and named Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. He is also the recipient of a Royal Society of Literature Scriptorium Award, a London Writers Award, and a Creative Future Writers’ Award. He lives in London.
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