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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK - From the New York Times best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both "Like Nora Ephron, with a British twist....Delivers the most delightful aspects of classic romantic comedy--snappy dialogue, realistic relationship dynamics, humorous meet-cutes and misunderstandings--and leaves behind the clichéd gender roles and traditional marriage plot." --The New York Times Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is. . . Without a home Waiting for his stand-up career to take off Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story... In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.
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Such great articulation on a break up! I enjoyed the anecdotes and how feelings were shared from a male perspective. It was a little strange to have had the narration changed in the last 10% of the book, but yet, worked.
I LOVED this book. The first-time published female writer did a great job of inhabiting a male point of view - that of being a bit self-centered and clueless at the receiving end of a break-up. It felt that the protagonist’s journey went on a bit too long, but I enjoyed how the voice flipped to the female’s POV - and how her actions started to make some sense. There are two sides to every story, it seems. I listened to a portion on audio. If I co...read more
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