Pip has been told throughout her life she needs to cheer up. She's spent years researching happiness and what it can do for you and how to attain it, and she has finally found the answer.  

Pip Adam is the author of the short story collection Everything We Hoped For, which won the NZ Post best first book award in 2011, and the novel I'm Working on a Building, and is the host of Better Off Read, a podcast about reading and writing in New Zealand. You can get her books from Victoria University Press, and you can listen to her podcast at betterreadnz.wordpress.com