The Proposal

by OwenSlot (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $4.23

  Fans of Mike Gayle will enjoy this original, funny and moving story about loyalty and infidelity, stretching the boundaries of friendship and confronting the past. Then: Back at university Dominic makes a drunken pact with Lucy: if neither of us are married by 35, lets marry each other. Now: They are 35. And they are considering if it could actually work. Dominic's quit life as a brilliant New York ad exec and moved back to London to find out. Lucy is a single mother and doesn't know whether to take him seriously. The proposal would be ideal - if only he wasn't already married, she hadn't tried marriage once before, and their sex wasn't quite so bad...Can friendship be redesigned to make a marriage? Or is there too much excess baggage?

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.28

  Then: Back at university, Dominic makes a drunken pact with Lucy: if neither of us are married by 35, let's marry each other. Now: They are 35. And they are wondering if it could actually work. Dominic's quit life as a brilliant New York advertising exec and moved back to London to find out. Lucy is a single mother and doesn't know whether to take him seriously. The proposal would be ideal were he not married, had she not tried marriage once before and was their sex not quite so bad. Can friendship be redesigned to make a marriage? Or is there simply too much excess baggage?