Almost Happy

12 Short Stories and Personal Essays

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Pub Date Oct 28 2023 | Archive Date Nov 24 2023

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Description

  • A collection of stories and personal essays for the modern woman who is tired of being asked whether she is married, has a husband and a career, but not whether she is happy.
  • Life has no shopping list for happiness – we need to make sense of it on our own terms.
  • This book celebrates the Almost Happy moments of life, often underrated but at the core of the human experience…

The modern notion of happiness – a state of constant joy when ticking off the shopping list of life, including marriage, children and a career – is a tricky one: Either it is unattainable, or it does not lead to the expected fulfilment. Instead, we need to make sense of our life journey on our own terms. And at its crossroads we feel most alive and encounter our true selves. Rather than mourning the lover we did not kiss or the path we did not take, this book celebrates the Almost Happy of such encounters.

In 12 short stories accompanied by personal essays, Ella Voss takes us on a wild journey of soul-searching. She makes us walk beside a panther in New York and encounter Gaudí in Barcelona. Her journey takes us from India to Paris to Bali, to the deepest abyss of the human soul and back.

  • A collection of stories and personal essays for the modern woman who is tired of being asked whether she is married, has a husband and a career, but not whether she is happy.
  • Life has no shopping list...

A Note From the Publisher

Ella Voss is an author of literary fiction based in Munich. After having lived in Geneva, London and Chennai, her creative soul speaks English. Her first novel Like a Fox to a Swallow (2021) was long-listed for the Devon & Cornwall International Novel Prize. When not writing, she can be found cooking for her friends or running with her greyhound in the English Garden.

Ella Voss is an author of literary fiction based in Munich. After having lived in Geneva, London and Chennai, her creative soul speaks English. Her first novel Like a Fox to a Swallow (2021) was...


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PAGES 264

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This feels like a very personal read and insight into the life of being a modern women. I definitely recommend this.

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