Reasons to be cheerful: Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

An Achingly Funny Tale Of A Teenager Falling In Love With The Wrong Person, In 1970s Leicestershire 18 Year Old Lizzie Vogel Finds Herself A New Job In A Dentist's Surgery After Answering A Classified Advert In The Leicester Mercury For A 'mature Lady With A Strong Interest In Dental Issues'. Working For An Eccentric Dental Surgeon Who's Obsessed With Becoming A Freemason, Lizzie's Life Is Uneventful, Until Andy Nicolello Turns Up One Day To Deliver A Crown. Lizzie Seizes Her Chance To Find Love, And Soon Begins Calling Him Her Boyfriend Even Though They Have Never So Much As Kissed Or Even Sat Next To Each Other On The Sofa. But Andy Doesn't Turn Out To Be Quite What He Seems... Reasons To Be Cheerful Is A Painfully Funny Account Of Life As A Hapless Teenager In 1970s Leicestershire From The Bestselling Author Of Love, Nina, Man At The Helm And Paradise Lodge.