Adelaide Faith Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Adelaide Faith is a published author and an editor.

She was an editor at Channel 4 Learning before training to take on a new career working as a veterinary nurse at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. She also worked in animals in another capacity for a period of time as a dog walker, taking on a day job as so many authors do.

After training to be a vet nurse, Adelaide found employment working as a nurse for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals.

Faith is the author of her debut novel, Happiness Forever. She has also penned short fiction that has appeared in such publications as Maudlin House, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Vlad Mag, Hobart, Forever, Farewell Transmission, and ExPat Press.

Adelaide belongs to Chelsea Hodson’s Morning Writing Club, where she polishes her skills and works on being a better author. She is also a mother and resides with her daughter in Hastings, England, where they also share their home with their beloved dogs.

Happiness Forever is a 2025 novel by Adelaide Faith. If you’ve been looking for a new contemporary fiction story but you want something that isn’t a mystery, horror, or fantasy, this book is its own unique work that is relatable and a refreshing change of pace where it is not of a genre but truly just a story with a main character that alternates between being interesting, beguiling, sad, and more.

Sylvie is in therapy, and it’s maybe the only time in her life where she is really happy. She has a female therapist and while most patients are able to go and sit and talk to their therapist and then just not think about them once they leave, that is not the case for Sylvie. She finds herself thinking about her therapist a lot more than normal– or that she suspects that a so-called ‘normal’ person would.

Sylvie thinks about her therapist six hundred times a day and knows that she is in love with her. Every second that they are not spending time together, which is many hours out of the week outside of their paid sessions, Sylvie is thinking about her therapist. She can’t wait to go back the next time.

She loves going to therapy and when she is inside of that room, relaxed and with another person, she finds that she can talk about anything that she wants. She talks about every type of topic under the sun, from hitting piñatas until the candy comes out to the fake hope that she feels eighties music has promised to the listeners, and even what the interior life of a dog might be like for them.

Sylvie knows that she is obsessed with her therapist, but she’s not very certain as to the reason why. Maybe it’s just that she feels safe with her, or that she has no one else in her life. Maybe it’s just a lost person who needs to connect to someone and is trying to get that with this professional.

Outside of therapy, Sylvie has what she thinks of as an important but small job working as a veterinary nurse. She also has a tattooist friend that she talks to over text so there is that form of human connection and companionship. She also has Curtains, her little dog who may just be slightly brain damaged. Curtains does help when it comes to providing the emotional support that she needs.

One day Sylvie is walking through her seaside town on the beach when she has a chance meeting with a girl named Chloe. They hit it off and Sylvie feels like Chloe gets her completely. That day they become fast friends and make a friendship that will end up lasting for the rest of her life. Could this be the thing that finally helps Sylvie to not be so obsessed with her therapist?

Then Sylvie goes to her therapist for a regular appointment and her therapist gives her some horrible news. Now Sylvie has to come up with new ways of coping that last, and that is going to be tough. Especially since a possible solution of being adopted by her therapist is not really going to be effective in any real way. Maybe her new friendship will help her deal with the news.

It seems that her world is opening up at last and is moving beyond the confusion, pain, and sense of fear that have been keeping her trapped in the same place for so long. Now she has to choose whether she is truly ready to take on some things or go ahead and take the leap anyway even though she doesn’t feel like she is in the perfect place to do so.

With a sense of wit and charm, this is about a young woman who is trying to find herself the best way that she knows how. Can Chloe help be a conduit and a way to find that path forward? Can Sylvie find the inner courage to take on life and even perhaps move beyond her fixation on her therapist? Anything is possible.

If you love contemporary lit stories that are easy to follow along with but offer an unexpected depth, this might be the book for you. Find out and follow along with every word by getting your hands on a copy of Happiness Forever by Adelaide Faith and see why so many other readers have picked up this book– and found it difficult to put down!