Portable Veblen

A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas – and squirrels <p> SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 </p> <p>Can squirrels speak? Do snails scream?</p> <p>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?</p> <p>Is getting married even a remotely reasonable idea in the twenty-first century?</p> <p>And what in the world is a ‘Veblen’ anyway?</p> <p> ‘Raw and weird and hilarious’ Guardian </p> <p>‘A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds’ Sunday Express</p> <p>‘Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius’ Paul Murray</p> <p>‘I can’t remember a book I enjoyed more’ Nina Stibbe</p> <p>‘Seriously funny and extraordinarily well written’ Jonathan Franzen, Guardian books of the year</p>