Aphrodite's Workshop For Reluctant Lovers (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
‘You are on the shortlist for the Great Romantic Read of the Year!’ Coco immediately began to practise his acceptance speech. Judges, sponsors, Ladies and Gentlemen, losers, I stand before you the winner of this prestigious award. Obviously, less prestige and more money would have worked just as well, if not better, but … Shut up, Coco. I phoned Maggie Jacobs to ask, ‘What should I wear?’ ‘Not black.’ ‘Really? I want to feel comfortable, and anyway I don’t want to look like a cliché romantic novelist.’ ‘Nor would you want to look like a romantic novelist trying hard not to look like a cliché romantic novelist.’ Antonia Lavender would not have had this problem, I thought, being a six foot three rugby player whose real name was Reg. My agent phoned to congratulate me. ‘This should spur you on to finish the new novel,’ Gemma said. ‘How is it going, anyway?’ ‘Not well.’ ‘That’ll change now, you’ll see.’ And for a few days it seemed that she had been right.
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