A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrelsSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning – from an electrically entertaining new voiceA laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrelsSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016Can squirrels speak? Do snails scream?Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Will they be undone by the advances of a very sexy, very unscrupulous heiress to a pharmaceuticals corporation?Is getting married even a remotely reasonable idea in the twenty-first century?And what in the world is a ‘Veblen’ anyway?‘Raw and weird and hilarious’ Guardian‘A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds’ Sunday Express‘Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius’ Paul Murray‘I can’t remember a book I enjoyed more’ Nina Stibbe‘Seriously funny and extraordinarily well written’ Jonathan Franzen, Guardian books of the yearSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning – from an electrically entertaining new voiceCan squirrels speak? Do snails scream?Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Will they be undone by the advances of a very sexy, very unscrupulous heiress to a pharmaceuticals corporation?Is getting married even a remotely reasonable idea in the twenty-first century?And what in the world is a ‘Veblen’ anyway?‘Man oh man, do I love this book! Audacious, imaginative and totally wonderful’ Karen Joy Fowler'Smart, funny, charming and profound. Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius’ Paul Murray‘The squirreliest novel I ever read. I enjoyed it completely’ Ursula K. Le Guin‘Raw and weird and hilarious . . . very entertaining’ Scarlett Thomas, Guardian‘Ambitious, spirited, funny, daring’ Financial Times‘A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds’ Sunday Express‘Utterly charming. A true joy of a book’ Irish Examiner‘Full of life and humour and compassion’ Times Literary Supplement‘Witty and sharp’ Irish Times‘Darkly funny, irrepressibly quirky and very, very hard to put down’ Sam Baker, The Pool‘Quirky and smart. If you loved Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, you’ll love this’ Glamour‘Wildly brilliant. Razor-sharp, intimate, hilarious and profound. Every page is a delight’ Emma Jane Unsworth‘Terrifically entertaining . . . hard to resist’ Daily Mail‘Offbeat, thoughtful, mischievous . . . McKenzie [has] a pin-sharp eye for the tragic-comic, and for dialogue’ Herald (Scotland)‘McKenzie has a wonderful eye – and a relishing appetite – for the craziness that is everywhere in ordinary life if you know how to look’ Tessa Hadley‘A novel of festive originality’ The New York Times‘Unforgettable. A wild ride that you will not want to miss’ San Francisco Chronicle‘If The Portable Veblen has a flaw, it is that its caricatures are so on the nose as to make the reader hope to flee the human race’ Boston Globe‘Oddball characters and plot turns abound, including talking squirrels and bureaucratic ironies worthy of "Catch-22." But a sober question occupies its core: Do our parents' best intentions do us harm?’ Minneapolis Star Tribune‘Accurately and funnily capture[s] the complexities of modern families . . . The Corrections meets The Wallcreeper’ Huffington PostElizabeth McKenzie’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She received her MA from Stanford, was an assistant fiction editor at The Atlantic, and currently teaches creative writing at Stanford’s school of continuing studies.Introducing a razor-sharp wit and a joyfully imaginative new voice perfect for fans of Lorrie Moore (A Gate at the Stairs 58K TCM) and Miranda July (No-One Belongs Here More than You 26K TCM)The story of two dysfunctional families during the months between a proposal and a wedding day – told with plenty of humour and heartVeblen is set to become the most memorable and endearing fictional heroine of the year, and her squirrel-shaped counsellor will surprise, amuse and delight readersA timely and current satire both of the institutions and values our society holds dear, and the darker side of the pharmaceuticals industryCompetition: A Little Life; Edge Of The World; We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; Reader On The 6.27; Gap Of Time; My Name Is Lucy Barton; Watchmaker Of Filigree Street; Manual For Cleaning Women; At Hawthorn Time; Glorious Heresies; House At The Edge Of The World; All That Man Is; Essex Serpent; A Little Life. Jonathan Franzen;Jeanette Winterson; Ann Patchett; Hanya Yanagihara; Ali Smith; Anne Enright; Karen Joy Fowler; Jean-Paul Didierlaurent; Carys Bray; Elizabeth Strout; Sarah Perry; Han Kang; Melissa Harrison; Natasha Pulley; Vesna Goldsworthy; Lucia Berlin; Lisa McInerney; Julia Rochester; David Szalay; Cynthia Bond;
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