About the Author

Elise Valmorbida grew up Italian in Australia, but fell in love with London. Her first book Matilde Waltzing (Allen & Unwin) was nominated for two national literary awards. Her short stories have appeared in New Writer via the Ian St James Award, Carve Magazine and the Cyan Books anthologies From Here to Here and Common Ground. She currently runs a communications consultancy and teaches creative writing at the University of the Arts London.

Reviews

"A book that defies categorization, inviting us into the company of strangers who treat us like their oldest friends. In the stories of their lives, we witness their happiness, their love, and sometimes their loss and disappointment. No story is like its neighbour, yet each is told with vividness, economy and compassion. In The Book of Happy Endings, Elise Valmorbida achieves something rare and precious, and she writes like an angel." --John Madden, director of Shakespeare in Love