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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - From the 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.
--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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I really like the last 20% of this book. Once they started getting into the letters and the girlfriends perspective, I thought it was excellent. Everything before that slow or not super interesting or engaging.
A spot-on fiction of modern relationships. To be in love, to be out of love, to be lonely, to grief, to move in and out of friendship, to rebound, not to be okay for a while, and to be okay again eventually. Oh and the battle to live in London, the city we hate to love but can't stay away from. The confusion, the pain, the joy if it all. It's funny, it's sad, it's depressing, it's hopeful: it's what it's like to live in this day and age.
I love that we get both Andy and Jen's perspectives through the relationships and that enables you to understand more why they are where they are. Lovely read!
I love that we get both Andy and Jen's perspectives through the relationships and that enables you to understand more why they are where they are. Lovely read!
Interesting perspective of breakup from man’s perspective
Would be stand up comedian struggling after his girlfriend breaks up with him
Different generation!
This one is another DNF for me. I read the description only once before adding to my library book rentals. By the time this book was ready for me to listen to, I'd completely forgotten what this was even about so I sort of went in "blind". At 56% in, he's still grumbling about his breakup with Jen. I thought he'd be able to move on from this and no longer have the patience for his complaining.
DNF @ 56%. Happily returning to library.
DNF @ 56%. Happily returning to library.
It drags on and on, but it does feel like life is moving in slow motion when your heart is broken. I don’t like the timeline at the end, but it does drop you right back to whatever you were experiencing during the early spring of 2020.
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