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Happiness Is A Four-Letter Word

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Nandi, Zaza, Tumi and Princess are best friends. And yet, there are secrets even they don’t share. Nandi’s final wedding arrangements are nearly in place so why is she suddenly feeling on edge? Zaza, the “trophy wife”, waits for the day her affair comes to light and her husband gives her a one-way ticket back to the township; Tumi has only one wish to complete her perfect life – a child. But when her wish is granted, it’s not exactly how she pictured it. And Princess? For the first time ever, she has fallen in love – with a painter who seems to press all the right buttons. But soon she discovers – like her friends already have – that life is not a bed of roses, and happiness never comes with a manual . . .

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“My husband hasn’t been perfect, but show me one relationship that is? Just one?”

Nandi, Zaza, Tumi and Princess are best friends. And yet, there are secrets even they don’t share. Nandi’s final wedding arrangements are nearly in place so why is she suddenly feeling on edge? Zaza, the “trophy wife”, waits for the day her affair comes to light and her husband gives her a one-way ticket back to the township; Tumi has only one wish to complete her perfect life – a child. But when her wish is granted, it’s not exactly how she pictured it. And Princess? For the first time ever, she has fallen in love – with a painter who seems to press all the right buttons. But soon she discovers – like her friends already have – that life is not a bed of roses, and happiness never comes with a manual…

ISBN: 978-1-0370-0986-0
Epub ISBN: 978-1-0370-0987-7
Date Released: October 2024 (This edition is reissued by Happiness Books and Productions. First published by Kwela Books in 2010 and reissued in 2016)
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 13cm x 19.8cm

Authors

NOZIZWE CYNTHIA JELE

Nozizwe is the author of two novels. Happiness is a Four-Letter Word (2010) which won the Best First Book category (Africa region) in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2011 and 2011 M-Net Literary Award in the Film Category and was shortlisted for the 2011 Booksellers Choice Award and Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction (2011). The book was adapted into a film with the same title and released at the South African box office in 2016. The Ones with Purpose (2018) shortlisted for the following South African literary prizes: Sunday Times Literary Awards Barry Ronge Fiction Prize 2019 and long listed for the International Dublin Literary Prize 2020.

Nozizwe is one of the founding members of the Happiness Literary Foundation an artist-run, not-for-profit organisation that fosters and promotes the culture of reading and writing within communities and invests in the professional development of local artists. Nozizwe holds a MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia (UEA).

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