HappyHead

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, 2024
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2024
An Amazon Best YA Book of the Year, 2023
An Irish Sunday Independent Book of the Year, 2023

We are in an epidemic. An epidemic of unhappiness.

Friends, here is the good news: HappyHead has the answer.

When Seb is offered a place on a radical retreat designed to solve the national crisis of teenage unhappiness, he is determined to change how people see him and make his parents proud. But as he finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Finn, Seb starts to question the true nature of the challenges they must undergo. The deeper into the programme the boys get, the more disturbing the assessments become, until it’s clear there may be no escape...