![]() ![]() The story is told through Isa’s diary entries, and as the summer progresses, her and Gala’s friendship is strained by their lack of money and differing intentions (I wouldn’t go so far as to say ‘ambitions’ because the girls hardly think a day ahead, let alone months or years). I can’t tell you how much pressure is put on girls like me and Gala to give other people a good time. They rely on tenuous introductions and acquaintances for invitations, meals and trips to the Hamptons. The girls have hardly a cent to their names, and spend the days doing various cash-in-hand jobs (such as nightclub hostesses, extras on film sets, and life-drawing models) to fund their night-time adventures – bars, restaurants, parties. The narrator, Isa Epley, twenty-one years old, is spending the summer in New York with her best friend, Gala Novak. ![]() Obviously I stayed or I wouldn’t be writing a review. Halfway through Marlowe Granados’s debut novel, Happy Hour, I was in two minds – stay or go? At the end of a happy hour, one of two things happen – the party carries on, or everyone goes home. ![]()
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