From the internationally acclaimed, Man Booker-shortlisted Nicola Barker comes a new novel, a post-post apocalyptic story that overflows with pure creative talent Imagine a perfect world where everything is known, where everything is open, where there can be no doubt, no hatred, no poverty, no greed Imagine a System which both nurtures and protects A Community which nourishes and sustains An infinite world A world without sickness, without death A world without God A world without fear Could youmight you be happy there? H(A)PPY is a post-post apocalyptic Alice in Wonderland, a story which tells itself and then consumes itself It's a place where language glows, where words buzz and sparkle and finally implode It's a novel which twists and writhes with all the terrifying precision of a tiny fish in an Escher lithograph - a book where the mere telling of a story is the end of certainty