Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man - Softcover

Carroll, Claudia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553817558 ISBN 13: 9780553817553

Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), 2007

Synopsis

Ever since she was a little girl, all Amelia Lockwood has ever wanted is to get married. The Tiffany ring, the Vera Wang dress ...the whole shebang. The car, the gorgeous flat and three fabulous friends only go so far in consoling her now that she's thirty-seven and still not married. So when Amelia hears about a course that promises she'll be saying 'I do' before the year is out, she jumps at the chance to enrol. What Amelia doesn't realize is that a fundamental principle of the course is that you need to revisit all your past relationships to work out where you went wrong. In single-minded pursuit of her ultimate goal Amelia gets in touch with every ex-boyfriend she's ever had - right back to age sixteen - with some surprising results!

About this title

Review:

Carroll works the work vs. love trade-off with outrageous comic detours . . . a sincere but sharp-witted voice.--Publishers Weekly

From the Author:

I first got the idea for this book while browsing through the self-help section of a bookstore in the USA, (I'm a total sucker for any book which promises me I can change my life around in seven days. Too gullible, that's my trouble.) Anyway, I stumbled on a book called, The Program, How To Find A Husband Over The Age of Thirty Five, which immediately caught my eye. It was all about applying the marketing principles taught at Harvard Business School to your love life and it pretty much guaranteed that you'd find love and marriage within a year. One of the suggestions it made was to revisit all of your ex-boyfriends, yes, all of them, the idea being, you figure out where you're going wrong in your love life, then correct whatever mistakes you're repeating, so you can move forward. Are you making bad choices or settling for 'Mr, Ah Sure He'll Do' all the time....that type of thing. So I got to thinking, what fun it would be to follow a character on this journey through her entire past dating history. A chartacter who has everything else in life going for her; fab job, great friends, financial security, but who just never met HIM along the way. At least, not yet.....

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0553817558
• ISBN 13: 9780553817553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480