Come Together - Hardcover

Lloyd, Josie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375502327 ISBN 13: 9780375502323

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees's collaboration is the first romantic comedy to be narrated from both the man's and the woman's perspective - in alternating chapters. Jack Rossiter, a single guy who'd rather run a marathon than have a relationship, meets Amy Crosbie, a beautiful and earnest woman who is looking for The Man. It's a disaster from the start. Jack's vaguely interested, but then Amy tells him that she was really interested in his best friend. Of course, she tells him this after sleeping with him. Then he doesn't call and she wonders why.
But for some reason, Jack eventually does call Amy. And they go on a date. And another one. They like each other. They acknowledge that they like each other. Amy begins to think that she may have finally found her Man, but she may be very wrong.

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Review:

Amy, a worn-out twenty-something on a B-road to nowhere, sitting at a set of traffic lights at Sex Corner that have been stuck on red for six months, and merrily kidding herself that the slowest route with the greatest number of hurdles will eventually make her happy, meets Jack.

Also single, Jack lives his life as if on the outside lane of a motorway driving a Porsche, living fast and playing hard, occasionally taking a slip road to Shag Town where he can be guaranteed a different woman at every exit, zooming off into the sunset as soon as he has finished and neatly avoiding commitment as he puts his foot to the floor and accelerates to the next junction.

A witty, shrewd and ultimately highly entertaining novel, Come Together takes a new route over traditional terrain, seeping into the psyche of one man and one woman as they take their first tentative steps towards coupledom. As Lloyd and Rees deftly switch from his point of view to hers, the reader eavesdrops on two different takes of the same situation, highlighting those all important differences between the complicated mating rituals of the male and female of the species.

Guaranteed to cause arguments over a pint, this light, enjoyable novel adds a new twist to the Bridget Jones phenomena, taking the "woman in search of a meaningful relationship" one step further, in a refreshingly different take on a familiar theme. --Susan Harrison

Review:

"The power couple of popular romance."--"The Times" "From the Trade Paperback edition."

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375502327
• ISBN 13: 9780375502323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304