Behaving Like Adults: A Novel - Couverture souple

Maxted, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060096683 ISBN 13 : 9780060096687

Editeur : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Maxted Anna

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Modern women don't believe in love. Believing in love carries roughly the same stigma as wearing court shoes. It's as old fashioned as going on a diet (as opposed to a detox).'

Holly Appleton knows all that, and yet she believs in love so much that she sets up a dating agency, Girl Meets Boy, to help others fulfil their romantic destiny.

Holly's agency is a going success, yet her own love life is beginning to unravel. She has just become un-engaged to Nick (his job - Mr Elephant, childrens party entertainer). But Nick won't move on. Holly decides he needs to be shocked into shifting and agrees to go on a date with one of the men who write to her agency. And that's when the problems really start. Not only is Stuart Marshall not her type, he's deeply unpleasant and unaccustomed to taking no for an answer.

Will Nick see sense? Will Holly discover what she really wants and needs? Will Girl Meet Boy survive? Maybe they will, when they stop acting like children and start behaving like adults.

Praise for Anna Maxted

'Witty and clever...compelling, humane and worryingly funny.' Evening Standard

'Funny and inspiring, you'll be turning the pages 'til the small hours.' Company

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Meet Holly, the sunny twenty-nine-year-old owner of Girl Meets Boy, a dating service for those who are "beautiful inside and out." Though she's a successfulmatchmaker, she hasn't quite fulfilled her own relationship dreams (her ex-fiancé, Nick, seems unlikely to progress from his job as Mr. Elephant, children's party entertainer). So when her friends dare her to pick a man off the top of the pile, she's game.

But in one awful evening, the seemingly perfect Stuart turns out to be a completecad, and Holly's belief in the goodness of humanity takes a hit. What does it mean for her business and her romantic future if she can no longer trust her ability to read people? Holly's friends and colleagues are drawn into the complicated drama of her life, while Holly learns her most important lesson: to trust herself.

Rueful and hilarious, Behaving Like Adults is a must-read novel of men and women growing up -- in spite of themselves.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060096683
• ISBN 13: 9780060096687
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400