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The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan

Episode 3

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for 6 months

A sparky comedic exploration of modern love and millennial malaise from the Irish author Naoise Dolan. As read by Seána Kerslake (‘Bad Sisters’).

Celine (a pianist) and her boyfriend Luke (a serial cheater) are to be married. However, on the night of their engagement party, Luke disappears with Celine’s ex-girlfriend…

Phoebe (the bridesmaid and Celine’s sister) just wants to get to the bottom of Luke’s frequent unexplained disappearances.

Archie (the best man) should be moving on from his love for Luke and up the corporate ladder, but he finds himself utterly stuck.

And Vivian (a wedding guest) is the only one with enough emotional distance to offer something resembling good advice.

As the wedding approaches and these five lives intersect, past lovers, old friends and new enemies will search for their happily ever after — but does it lie at the end of an aisle?

The Author
Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. Her debut novel ‘Exciting Times’ was a Sunday Times bestseller. She has been short-listed and long-listed for several prizes, including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.

Reader: Seána Kerslake
Author: Naoise Dolan
Abridger: Rowan Routh
Producer: Michael Shannon
Executive Editor: Andy Martin

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