Okay Days

Sam is 28, Swedish and spending the summer in London, working for a top marketing agency. Over the course of the sticky summer months, she falls hard for Lucas, a man she first met as a teenager. Lucas is working at a boutique clothing store whilst trying to get a foot on the corporate ladder, and struggling to hold the pieces of his life together. Sam is a gorgeous distraction. But you can only avoid reality for so long, and both Sam and Lucas know their relationship can’t last. Nobody can be this happy forever, surely?

Okay Days tells the story of the rise and fall of Sam and Lucas’s affection for each other, looks unflinchingly at male body dysmorphia and women’s reproductive rights, and the pitfalls of modern love. When is okay good enough? And what are we willing to lose in the search for a life that is much better than just okay?

A SMART, SEXY AND SPIKY MODERN LOVE STORY, FROM DEBUT NOVELIST JENNY MUSTARD

‘A beautiful, bruising novel about love, sex and finding your place in the world. Okay Days is tender and humorous and ultimately uplifting. Sam and Lucas are unforgettable. Simply brilliant’ Molly Aitken

‘Fresh and sharply observant . . . One of the most intriguing books I’ve read in some time’ Elaine Feeney

‘Reading Okay Days is like drinking the ideal lime cordial, sweetness clarified by sharpness’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Imprint: SCEPTRE
Publication date: 29/06/2023