The Happy Valley

by Liz Mackie

A novel about travel, writing and other "The traveler was, it appeared, being conveyed on a litter or some kind of roofless palanquin, or possibly on the roof of a palanquin, through a forest of flowering trees which might be an orchard, to a destination favored for the occasion by a host of highly emotional people whose language she did not recognize." - from The Happy Valley

160 pages, Paperback

First published September 2, 2009

About the author

With LAMENT: A SOVIET WOMAN AND HER TRUE STORY, author Liz Mackie launched Nostalgistudio, an independent publishing company for high-quality American writing. Three volumes deep into FAMEPUNK, her picaresque historical-fantasy novel set in the world of women’s tennis, Liz has also published a poetry collection (DUG FOR VICTORY: POEMS FROM RIP-TV), a travel novella called THE HAPPY VALLEY, and the on-line writings collected at www.liz-mackie.com. A long-ago graduate of Swarthmore College, she lives and works in New York City.