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Ha-Ha A Novel Grace Byron Charlotte Illes' uncanny sleuthing abilitiesA prizewinning, semi autobiographical debut novel that explores a young woman's struggle with mental illness at Oxford University in the 1950s for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh, Melissa Broder, and Sally Rooney. At a tea party at Oxford University in the 1950s, earnest undergraduates in floral dresses clink cups, discussing their studies, sports, and summer balls. But to one student, Josephine, they are grotesquely transformed: she is sitting among