We Were Very Merry

‘An intimate character study and honest portrait of a marriage, this sequel, with its eloquent prose and sharp dialogue, does not disappoint.’
— J.M. Monaco

‘A forensic portrait of post-war marriage. In prose that never drops a stitch, Susan Furber has delivered another triumph in this insightful, moving and utterly compelling novel.’
— Christine Dwyer Hickey

‘We Were Very Merry tells the story of a modern marriage in which no one is at fault since no one appears to have done anything wrong. The attempts to make one’s self intelligible to another reveal the grief and regret inherent in the past, and despite a well-earned resolution, the exorbitant price of perception.’
— Susanna Moore

‘Readers: here’s your next binge-read! In We Were Very Merry, we meet up again with Lillie Carrigan – the deeply felt heroine of Susan Furber’s captivating World War II novel The Essence of an Hour – as she falls in love “for the second time,” and moves forward into married life with her brilliant husband, “the most beautiful man … ever seen in the flesh.” The young couple’s post-war life in Paris and London is an exuberant era that spins Lillie into her truest adulthood and demands her most honest confrontation with her past. The European urban milieu Furber creates is a world where you’ll want to linger.’
— Anna Monardo