The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Darkly Comic Novel Set in Modern India Michelle de Kretser Fran Hall and her husband

Fran Hall and her husband Nathan live in a farmhouse on the edge of the Fens with their two children

" "Practical Ethics

and the Senate is hopelessly divided

where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields

The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Darkly Comic Novel Set in Modern India Michelle de Kretser Fran Hall and her husbandOusep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being "the last of the real men." His wife Mariamma stretches their money, raises their two boys, and, in her spare time, gleefully fantasizes about Ousep dying. One day, their seemingly happy seventeen year old son Unni an obsessed comic book artist falls from the balcony, leaving them to wonder whether it was an accident. Three years later, Ousep receives a package that sends him