I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder #joyce Being a hero would mean

Being a hero would mean learning to use your power

352 pagesPublication: 19 Aug 2002

and undoing the body so that it can find a way to live

"An effervescent and irresistible new voice" Coco Mellors

I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder #joyce Being a hero would meanChuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid thirties; she's twelve years younger. He's long abandoned his ambition of becoming a novelist and now works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. 'Lead copywriter,' he corrects himself. Joey lives paycheck to paycheck on her barista wages and privately dreams of making it as a poet. They go back to Chuck's luxury flat a world away from Joey's cramped house share, the crumbs in her bed. Soon, Joey's imagining