Really Good, Actually, Monica Heisey
‘Monica Heisey's observations on men, women, friendship, love, and sex are equal parts hilarious and profound’ - Dolly Alderton
From the electric voice of Monica Heisey, the genius screenwriter behind multi-award-winning sitcom Schitt's Creek, comes Really Good, Actually – a wonderfully addictive and irresistible debut novel.
My one word of wisdom to all readers of Really Good, Actually is to avoid reading it in public, unless you don’t mind laughing away to yourself while avoiding the looks of confused onlookers. From the very first page of Heisey’s hotly anticipated debut, I instantly understood the buzz surrounding its upcoming release.
Really Good, Actually follows 29-year-old Maggie, whose marriage ends only 608 days after it started, as she adapts to her new identity and as a ‘Surprisingly Young Divorcee’. As Maggie embarks on various phases of trying to assure her friends, family and, most important herself, that she is really good, actually, she begins to question the conventions and expectations surrounding love, life, and commitment.
Whether or not you have experienced a life-change similar to Maggie is almost irrelevant, as I challenge any reader – young or old – to not relate to her razor-sharp observations on the uncertainties of modern love, friendship, and happiness.
