The Happiness Thief is told by the main character Kasuba, as she tells her life story we meet the characters who have shaped her life through her eyes. A story of love, of pain, of family, of friendship and betrayal when the 13 year old Kasuba strikes an unlikely friendship with the beautiful Dianne. A friendship that is likely to last them a lifetime. Yet a terrible incident happens which separates the two of them, only to be reunited twelve years later in an unusual way. Soon they find out 'happily ever after' only exists in fairy tales as the consequences of the incident comes back to test their friendship. Kasuba learns the bitter lesson of how a containable situation can cause heartbreak when pride, anger and pain are used to deal with it.