No Hard Feelings

Penny is in her late twenties and nothing is going to plan. Her friends are pulling ahead, engagements, promotions, seemingly effortless lives, while she waits: for Max, her noncommittal on-again-off-again boyfriend, to let her stay the night; for the promotion her tyrannical boss keeps dangling; for her therapy and her Valium and her good intentions to finally kick in.

Out of excuses, Penny sets herself a long list of resolutions, only to find that changing your life is harder than deciding to. As she cycles through wine, panic attacks in the office toilets, and merciless self-criticism, she has to confront an uncomfortable question: when bad habits feel this good, how do you learn to trust what's actually good for you? Genevieve Novak's witty, vulnerable debut is a sharply observed comedy about millennial anxiety, self-sabotage, and the messy work of growing up.