The Ex Files - Hardcover

Moore, Jane

3.44

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ISBN 10: 0752853007 ISBN 13: 9780752853000

Publisher: Orion, 2003

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The wedding day scenario in Jane Moore's second novel, The Ex-Files is brilliant. "Take a bride and groom, several relatives, four 'exes', mix with alcohol, and stand well back. Boom." Add in wickedly funny asides from a gay best friend and "explosive" doesn't even begin to cover it. So it's hardly a surprise that high-flying, high-maintenance model Fay Parker's dream of her big day doesn't quite go according to plan.

From the very first page it's clear that things in the matrimonial garden are far from rosy. Fay is indulging in a little pre-wedding infidelity: "She fumbled with his shirt buttons," and 10 seconds later regretted it: "what exactly was she doing?" So the gorgeous stranger with the intriguing X-factor is sent packing. But be assured we haven't seen the last of him, he turns up at the wedding weekend in a very compromising position.

Fay's intended is the lovely Mark, and his "exes" are Jenna, a sweetheart from school, and "feisty, opinionated" Kate. Mark and Kate lived happily together until the stress of Mark's job (as a chef) got in the way. He moved out "wondering if he'd done the right thing". But then he met beautiful, perfect Fay and fell head-over-heels in love. Or, at least he thinks he has. Needless to say Fay and Mark have unresolved issues, especially when the identity of Fay's handsome X-factor stranger is revealed. Cue tears, tantrums and some much-needed emotional honesty, before all is resolved. But who marries whom? Now that would be telling. --Eithne Farry

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SERIAL The Sun - 20th January (date tbc) MAGAZINES Woman's Own - Exes feature + reader offer - 17th February issueCosmopolitan - Feature written by Jane - April issueGood Housekeeping - Review - April issueCompany - Review - AprilissueGlamour - Review confirmed - April issueWoman and Home - ReviewOK magazine - Review confirmedHello - Books Feature - confirmed - interview on 20th DecemberGQ - ReviewJack - Review PRESS Daily Mirror - Books Interview - 19th JanThe Independent - My Greatest Mistake 14th JanuaryDaily Mail - What Book secured for publication 31st JanuarySunday magazine - Jane writing article for 19th Jan TV & RADIO ITV Today with Des & Mel - Booked for 5th FebruaryBBC The Morning Show - 13th FebCh5 The Wright Stuff - 31st JanR2 Steve Wright show - 22nd JanBBC LDN Robert Elms Show - 27th January (may cancel because of LBC)Bloomberg TVR4 Loose Ends - Saturday 1st February REVIEWS "THE SUN columnist and TV presenter Jane Moore's follow-up to 4play offers yet more wickedly saucy goings-on with Fay Parker, a heroine who's definitely all-woman, even if, when it comes to love, she behaves more like a man. Having enjoyed andthen cast aside a number of boyfiriends, Fay's been worried she'll never meet her match. Then she meets Mark - a caring, gook-looking guy who falls madlyin love with her and proposes. As their exes roll in for the wedding, trouble begins to brew. Moore's take of relationships is contemporary and complex leaving you with a distinctly bittersweet aftertaste. Just make sure you're ready for the steamy Candace Bushnell-style sex scenes and blistering one-liners

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