The author’s publisher, Notting Hill Press, sent me a copy of this novel in exchange for my review.“The Expat Diaries: Single in the City” shares a spirit with the Bridget Jones Diaries and the Shopaholic series. There is a lightness and warmth to Gorman’s style of writing. Hannah’s decision, how...
Librarian note: alternate-cover edition of B00I2N8JSM.Take one twenty-six-year-old American, add to a two thousand year old city, add a big dose of culture clash and stir.To think Hannah ever believed that Americans differed from Brits mainly in pronunciation, sophistication and dentistry. That's...
A dozen ignored phone calls plus a curt message. And according to Kate, the page not found notice meant he’d blocked me or deleted his account. So I’d potentially driven the poor man off Facebook. Just how many ways were there for Jack to tell me that what I did was unforgivable? All week long, I...
The gigs were the highlight of my life only a month earlier. I prattled on ad nauseam about them. The girls risked exceeding their monthly text allowances with squealing messages of support. Fast forward. It was September and I’d just answered Kat’s perfunctory question (How’re the gigs going?) w...
‘No, I don’t think there’s anything in your eye,’ he says. ‘I can’t see anything.’‘Thanks. Actually it feels better now.’My heart is hammering. ‘Would you like a drink, Rupert?’ I ask.‘No, thank you. I was just checking on when tea would be ready. I’ve got some work to do.’‘Would seven be all rig...
It’s been more than a month. Is getting over someone really just a war of attrition? Do we bore everyone within earshot and then turn the tedium on ourselves until sanity makes us move on? Because I’m at risk of OCD, so often have I read his text. I know you said not to get in touch but I hope y...