The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan

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The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan: Episode 7

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Luke explains what happened on the night of his engagement party.

Conflicted groom Luke confesses what Maria told him in the hotel on the night of his engagement party. As read by Archie Steele.

A sparky comedic exploration of modern love and millennial malaise from the Irish author Naoise Dolan.

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: Archie Steele
Author: Naoise Dolan
Abridger: Rowan Routh
Producer: Michael Shannon
Executive Editor: Andy Martin

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A sparky comedic exploration of modern love and millennial malaise.

A sparky comedic exploration of modern love and millennial malaise from the Irish author Naoise Dolan.

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