Behaving Like Adults

Behaving Like Adults

by Anna Maxted (Author)

Synopsis

'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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 18 Aug 2004

ISBN 10: 0434010294
ISBN 13: 9780434010295

Media Reviews
Moving, without being sentimental, riotously comic without being superficial. -- Daily Express Funny and inspiring, you'll be turning the pages until the small hours. -- Company From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author Bio
Anna Maxted lives in London with her cats, Disco and Natasha, and her husband Phil. She read English at Cambridge and is a freelance journalist. She is the author of two previous novels, Getting Over It and Running in Heels, both bestsellers in Britain and America.