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1. booksirelandmagazine.com › unconscious-uncouplingUnconscious uncoupling—Lauren Mackenzie ... - Books Ireland

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   We’re here to discuss her debut novel, The Couples, a thrilling drama many years in the making. Mackenzie has always written, starting with a book she made with a friend at school. The books that resonated during her earlier years include The Diary of Anne Frank and the works of Sylvia Plath.

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   Jul 19, 2023 · The Couples is a wonderful tapestry of interconnected lives and the implications for all when things get complicated. It’s a book described by the Irish Times as ‘Normal People for married people’ which really is a very apt description.

3. alifeinbooks.co.uk › 2023 › 07The Couples by Lauren Mackenzie: A grown up Sally Rooney

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   Jul 12, 2023 · I spent quite some time dithering about whether to put my hand up for Lauren Mackenzie’s The Couples. The premise seemed a wee bit tacky: three couples go away together, shedding their domestic responsibilities, get wasted and embark on a game of partner swapping.

4. www.irishbookawards.ie › nominee › the-couplesThe Couples - Irish Book Awards

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   Shortlist 2023. The Couples. By Lauren Mackenzie. Eva looked out the attic window of their charming guest house and watched the sun rise. She thought she might be sick. Splayed on the lawn below was Frank, apparently out cold. Her husband snored in the bed behind her.

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   May 17, 2024 · The gang agrees to swap partners for the night, but there is one rule… no falling in love, can they all stick to the promise they made? The Couples is a great novel to pick up if you’re ...

6. www.waterstones.com › book › the-couplesThe Couples by Lauren Mackenzie | Waterstones

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   Jul 6, 2023 · The Couples is a provocative, layered meditation on the vagaries of modern friendship, studded with gems of insight and beauty. An intriguing, compelling novel - Nuala O’Connor, author of NORA. Dark and sexy . . . a wonderfully nuanced portrait of the realities of adult relationships . . .

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   Is Lauren Mackenzie's 'the couples' a good read?

   • Lauren MacKenzie's The Couples is an utterly compulsive read, I couldn't put it down, with characters so authentic they jumped off the page. And how wonderfully refreshing to see older, messy, flawed, complex, sexy, desirable characters in fiction. I adored it - Fíona Scarlett, author of BOYS DON'T CRY

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   What is 'the couples' by Lauren Mackenzie about?

   • The Couples by Lauren Mackenzie is published with John Murray and is described by Donal Ryan as ‘a blockbuster in waiting ‘. Three couples head off on a trip together to celebrate a 48th birthday. One night away without children, one night where they can let their hair down and relive their youth without guilt or regret.

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   Who is Lauren Mackenzie?

   • Author and screenwriter Lauren Mackenzie talks to Sophie Grenham about the recession, working in television, and her debut novel, The Couples . by Sophie Grenham When I find Lauren Mackenzie in The Gresham hotel’s buzzing Writer’s Lounge, she stands and greets me with a hug.

   Unconscious uncoupling—Lauren Mackenzie talks to Sophie Grenham

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   Is Mackenzie a good book?

   • So far, so cliched you might think, but Mackenzie deftly weaves their lives together, engaging our sympathy for characters easily recognisable at the school gate, supermarket, or wine bar, in a novel which has a very pleasing narrative arc with a nicely ambivalent ending. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

   The Couples by Lauren Mackenzie: A grown up Sally Rooney

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8. openlibrary.org › books › OL48170931MThe Couples by Lauren Mackenzie | Open Library

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   Jun 17, 2023 · Couples by Lauren Mackenzie, 2023, Hodder & Stoughton edition, in English