Catch A Fish From The Sea: (Using the Internet) - Softcover

Akhtar, Nasreen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0955521416 ISBN 13: 9780955521416

Publisher: greenbirds, 2008

Synopsis

Takes readers into the uncertain world of internet dating. Nasreen Akhtar is a 30-something single British Asian who is well past her cultural best-before date. After years of shying away from all things marital, she discovers an unexpected yearning for love. Following a toe-curling interview (""What is your name, Nasreen?"") for an arranged marriage, the author turns to the web for the one ""extraordinary guy who would be happy with an ordinary girl"". Amid the joy and heartbreak, she finds friendship, faith and a belief that fate must run its course.

About this title

About the Author

Nasreen Akhtar holds a postgraduate degree in Linguistics from Goldsmith College, University of London. She is a freelance copywriter and proprietor of the publishing imprint greenbirds. She was born in 1974 and came to the UK with her Pakistani parents when she was 4 years of age. Catch a Fish from the Sea (Using the Internet) is her first book and is shortlisted to receive the Book to Talk About 2009 award.

From the Back Cover

I wonder what Jane Austen would say about the current online matrimonial scene that we, the second generation British South Asians are currently coming to terms with?

Finding a hand to hold through this thing commonly referred to as 'life,' is not an easy task, by any means. It is however, at the same time, a most amazing experience; an exciting journey of the self, society, soul and love.

Catch a Fish from the Sea (using the Internet), is the the story of an ordinary girl's quest to find her extraordinary guy.

Thought provoking, witty, emotional, heart-breaking and heart-warming; it is a joyous read.

Edition details

• Publisher: greenbirds
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955521416
• ISBN 13: 9780955521416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 331