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Turning Thirty

Turning Thirty

by Mike Gayle (Author)

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    Paperback 2014

    $12.38
Synopsis

Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. At last, he thinks his career, finances and love life are all sorted. But life has other plans, and after splitting up with his girlfriend Matt is forced to move back in with his parents.

This scenario soon has Matt feeling nostalgic, and desperate for some sanity. So, one by one, he tracks down his old school mates - the rest of the Magnificent Seven.

But when you're turning thirty nothing's as simple as it used to be.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 27 Mar 2014
ISBN 10: 1444790129
ISBN 13: 9781444790122

Media Reviews
Not just readable, fresh and witty but sophisticated in execution . . . funny but also poignant * Independent on Sunday *
A warm, funny romantic comedy * Daily Mail *
Mike Gayle has carved a whole new literary niche out of the male confessional novel. He's a publishing phenomenon * Evening Standard *
Delightfully observant nostalgia . . . will strike a chord with both sexes * She *
Mike Gayle manages to weave everything together with such a warm-the-cockles-of-your-heart manner that once you've finished reading Turning Thirty you want to turn right back to the beginning and start all over again. It's real life - but better than we know it * B Magazine *
Funny and endearing . . . chuckle-on-the-bus readable * Heat *
Author Bio
Mike Gayle was born and raised in Birmingham. After graduating from Salford University with a degree in Sociology, he moved to London to pursue a career in journalism and worked as a Features Editor and agony uncle. He has written for a variety of publications including The Sunday Times, the Guardian and Cosmopolitan. Mike became a full time novelist in 1997 following the publication of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller My Legendary Girlfriend, which was hailed by the Independent as 'full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations,' and by The Times as 'a funny, frank account of a hopeless romantic'. Since then he has written thirteen novels including Mr Commitment, Turning Thirty and Wish You Were Here. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. You can find him online at mikegayle.co.uk and on Twitter @mikegayle.