The Happiness Machine

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Katie Williams. The Happiness Machine

THE HAPPINESS MACHINE. KATIE WILLIAMS. First published in hardback as. Tell the Machine Goodnight

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Praise for The Happiness Machine:

Dedication

The Happiness Machine. Apricity (archaic): the feeling of sun on one’s skin in the winter

Means, Motive, Opportunity

THECRIME

OPPORTUNITY

MOTIVE

MEANS

FROM GROVER VS. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CONCURRING OPINION

SUSPECT APRICITY RESULTS

THE SOLUTION

Brotherly Love

Such a Nice and Polite Young Man

Midas

Origin Story

Screamer

Body Parts

The Furniture Is Familiar

Tell the Machine Goodnight

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

About the Author

Also by Katie Williams

About the Publisher

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‘A master class in not losing sight of the human element . . . the kind of story that – in the subtlest of ways – can instruct us, and nourish us, and make us want to live and love a little better’

Matt Haig, New York Times Book Review

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He gave her a look but obliged without comment, turning them inside out. It had been his trick in the past to load his pockets with heavy objects. When Pearl nodded, Rhett stepped on the scale. She was not tall, but he was taller than her now, taller still as he stood on the scale. Taller, but he weighed less than her, and she was not a large woman. Rhett stared straight ahead, leaving Pearl to gaze at the number on her own. She felt it, that number. Higher or lower, she felt it every week, as if it affected her body in reverse, lightening her or weighing her down.

“You’ve lost two pounds.”

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