The Happiness Recipe

The Happiness Recipe
Stella Newman

Previously published as LeftoversA wonderfully uplifting novel about friendship, hope and the power of pasta.According to a magazine, Susie is a ‘Leftover’ – a post-Bridget Jones 30 something who has neither her dream man, job, nor home. She doesn’t even own six matching dinner plates.According to her friend Rebecca, Susie needs to get over her ex, Jake, start online dating – or at least stop being so rude to every guy who tries to chat her up.But Susie’s got a plan. If she can just make it the 307 days till her promotion and bonus, she can finally quit and pursue her dream career in food, then surely everything else will fall into place. If only her love life wasn’t so complicated…A sharp, witty and refreshing novel about love, friendship and enjoying what's left on the table.

STELLA NEWMAN

THE HAPPINESS RECIPE

Copyright

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First published as ‘Leftovers’ in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

This ebook edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copyright © Stella Newman 2013

Cover design © Becky Glibbery

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Stella Newman asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9781847562715

Ebook Edition © April 2013 ISBN: 9780007478446

Version: 2018-06-25

To George Hanna, with thanks.

‘We’ve arrived at the top of the staircase, finally ready to start our lives, only to discover a cavernous room at the tail end of a party, most of the men gone already, some having never shown up – and those who remain are leering by the cheese table, or are, you know, the ones you don’t want to go out with.’

Kate Bolick, ‘All The Single Ladies’, The Atlantic magazine

Contents

Title Page (#u90d572d2-0f0d-50bb-8a7c-d0797073f738)

Copyright (#u8dabab48-c8fd-55a3-af2e-e3b00d26be56)

Dedication (#u09d44b1a-dcda-5ad1-8556-39a7c41932ea)

Epigraph (#uf7b1c3b3-1c74-5e07-932f-8532000a26a0)

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w/c 19 March (#litres_trial_promo)

w/c 26 March (#litres_trial_promo)

w/c 2 April (#litres_trial_promo)

w/c 9 April (#litres_trial_promo)

w/c 16 April – three weeks to airdate (#litres_trial_promo)

w/c 23 April – Shoot Week (#litres_trial_promo)

w/c 30 April – one week to airdate (#litres_trial_promo)

w/c 7th May – Airdate! (#litres_trial_promo)

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w/c 21st May (#litres_trial_promo)

w/c 28th May (#litres_trial_promo)

One year later (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

Read on for an extract from Pear Shaped (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

By the same author (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

I am a Leftover.