Behaving Like Adults

by Anna Maxted (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $15.88

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.26

  Holly runs a dating agency. Up to now she's had no need of her own services, but, convinced her relationship with her fiance Nick has staled, she turfs him out and determines to go in pursuit of hearts-and-flowers romance, true love and the soul-mate she has convinced herself must exist. In the meantime, to get back into practice, she accepts a date with the hugely eligible Stuart. Rich, arrogant and charming, he's not her type at all, but he's her guinea pig. But Stuart rather likes Holly. And he's used to getting his own way. Much to her dismay, Holly finds Stuart won't take no for an answer and suddenly things don't look so easy. Brimming with warmth, perception and understanding, Anna Maxted once again mixes the heart-breaking with the humorous to deliver a page-turning, laugh-out-loud, emotionally satisfying read.

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $5.56

  '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). A modern woman cannot accept that Father Christmas is a fraud and persist in believing that one sunny day her dark handsome destiny will appear in a puff of Fahrenheit and haul her off to Happy Ever After.' Holly Appleton knows all that, and yet she believes in love so much that she sets up a dating agency, Girl Meets Boy, to help others fulfil their romantic destiny and find true happiness. Holly's life is a growing success, yet her own love life is beginning to unravel. She has just become un-engaged to Nick. (his job - as Mr Elephant, children's party entertainer - reveals his lack of ambition. He plainly doesn't care enough about her to try harder.) But Nick won't even move on, he won't even move out. Holly decides Nick needs to be shocked into shifting and agrees to go out on a date with one of the men who writes to her agency. And that's when the problems really start. Not only in 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.