Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston - Book Club Discussion Questions

Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston raises questions about how to stay happy in marriage and what happiness really means. Use these book club discussion questions on Happiness Sold Separately to lead your book club into the questions Winston raises.

Spoiler Warning: These book club discussion questions reveal important details about Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston. Finish the book before reading on.

1. Why do you think Elinor is drawn to the laundry room? Is their anything symbolic about the elements in the laundry room?
   
   
2. Why is Ted drawn to Gina? Why does Ted keep returning to Gina even when he vows that the affair is over?
   
   
3. What do each of the people in Happiness Sold Separately need? Do you think they get what they need in the end? Are you satisfied with the resolution?
   
   
4. Why does Toby like Ted so much? Did Toby change how you felt about Ted and Gina? Make them more sympathetic?
   
   
5. Do you think the marriage counselor was helping or hurting Elinor and Ted's marriage? Was their marriage salvageable?
   
   
6. Do you think the infertility drove Ted and Elinor apart or were they just wrong for each other? What role do you think circumstances play in the success or failure of a marriage?
   
   
7. Do you think Ted and Elinor should stay together or do you want Ted to go with Gina? Can any one solution make everybody happy?
   
   
8. What does the title, Happiness Sold Separately, mean? Have you ever bought into something that turned out to be less than promised?
   
   
9. Would a baby have made Ted and Elinor happy? What do you think is the secret to happiness?
   
   
10. The story is written in a way that the reader gets to hear from several characters' points of view. Do you think this was effective?
    
    
11. Rate Happiness Sold Separately on a scale of 1 to 5.