The Portable Veblen: Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016

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A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrels SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Can squirrels speak? Do snails scream?Will a young couple, new ly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Will they be undone by the advances of a very sexy, very unscrupulous heiress to a pharmaceuticals corporation?Is getting married even a remotely reasonable idea in the twenty-first century?And what in the world is a ‘Veblen’ anyway? ‘Raw and weird and hilarious’ Guardian ‘A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds’ Sunday Express‘Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius’ Paul Murray‘I can’t remember a book I enjoyed more’ Nina Stibbe‘Seriously funny and extraordinarily well written’ Jonathan Franzen, Guardian books of the yearThe Portable Veblen, a top literary work by Elizabeth McKenzie, is a humor-filled exploration of love and medical intrigue. It's a touching, wildly funny, and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love in the modern age, proving that getting married can still be a reasonable idea in the twenty-first century.For fans of Barbara Kingsolver (Demon Copperhead), Gabrielle Zevin (Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow), Maggie O'Farrell (Hamnet), Jenny Jackson (Pineapple street), and Jacqueline Crooks (Fire Rush). Show more