Consider Yourself Kissed

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'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

Mother, writer, worker, sister, friend, citizen, daughter, (sort of) wife. If she could be one, perhaps she could manage. Trying to be all, she found she was none.

Coralie grew up in Australia but needed to escape some ghosts. Adrift in London, she meets witty, sexy, generous Adam-and his charming four-year-old daughter. Falling in love is fun. And then?

Coralie yearns for children of her own, and to become a writer. But her trips back to Australia change her perspective. Ten years on, something essential is missing.

In this unforgettable story about what 'happily ever after' might truly mean, Jessica Stanley writes about life as we live it, and reveals how our intimate dramas can get tangled up with the public events of our times.

An honest, entertaining and intelligent portrait of a woman in love, Consider Yourself Kissed will capture your heart.

PRAISE-

'An unforgettable literary love story. This is a deeply appealing and winning novel.' Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings

'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?

'Suffused with wonder and joy.' Vogue

'I'm annoyed I didn't write this book myself. Combines rom-com breeziness with sharp political observation, plus one of the best depictions of stepmother-hood I've ever read.' Madeleine Gray, author of Green Dot

'Beautifully written, wise, funny, moving. Deftly fuses the personal and the political. A proper grown-up love story.' Beth Torrey, author of Saving Missy

'Oh, how I loved and empathised with Coralie! Consider Yourself Kissed is funny, tender, authentic and incredibly moving.' Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things

'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

'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

'Consider Yourself Kissed is a tender, layered novel and one of the sharpest portrayals of marriage and motherhood I've ever read. It's also warm and clever and funny. I completely inhaled it. As with all my favourite novels, I wished I could read it forever.' Alice Robinson, author of If You Go

'I absolutely raced through this novel which I found so smart, funny and true to life. One of those books you'll want to give all your friends once you've finished.' Claire Powell, author of At the Table

'The platonic ideal of reading experiences!...So funny, so smart and deliciously well observed! A real treat.' Lizzy Stewart, author of Alison

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781923058255
Published: April 2025

Number of pages: 368
Width: 153 mm
Height: 233 mm
Depth: 26 mm

Publisher: Text Publishing