Consider Yourself Kissed

Consider Yourself Kissed is a smart literary love story and an absorbing family drama. Jessica Stanley follows her characters over the years as they make their way in the private, intricate, fragile world they create for themselves, and in the always-changing larger world. This is a deeply appealing and winning novel.

Meg Wolitzer, author of The Wife

Fabulous…It’s clever, joyful, familiar and awkward, and so funny.

Nina Stibbe, author Reasons to Be Cheerful

Sweet and tender.

Pandora Sykes, author of How Do We Know We’re Doing it Right?

Consider Yourself Kissed is an incisive story about the complicated task of loving and being loved. There’s so much in this smart book—about class and identity, family and work. Stanley’s idiosyncratic characters are the heartbeat of this novel. I could see them, full-bodied, jumping out of the page, interesting and strange and, by the end, I missed them all.

Erin Riley, author of A Real Piece of Work

I loved it, I loved them, I loved the Cazaletty interior details, I loved the social politics, I loved the actual politics, I loved the time span, I loved how complicated everyone was. I already know I will read it again…A beautiful romcom for grown-ups.

Ella Risbridger author of The Year of Miracles

A book about falling in love to fall in love with—Consider Yourself Kissed is a beautifully observed, charming, intelligent, very funny novel full of heart and warmth and life. Jessica Stanley is a rare and special talent.

Lisa Owens author of Not Working

Set over ten years, this wonderful, sweeping novel doesn’t just make the political personal, but the personal political. It shows us how life is a series of negotiations and situations over which you have little control, but that loving and being loved is central. Beautiful and life affirming.

Araminta Hall, author of One of the Good Guys