Showing results for "Lucy Vine" in Contemporary

Ginny is about to turn 32. It’s a year she’s been thinking about for a long time. Sixteen years ago she crossed paths with a psychic who made some key predictions about her thirty-second year. Three bad things: A heartbreak, a loss of independence, and a death. Three good things: A life-changing trip, reconnecting with someone, and meeting her soulmate. The issue is that Ginny is due to get married in a month…but it’s all nonsense, obviously. But when some of those pesky predictions start coming true she starts to wonder what might happen next.

Jemma has always loved books. Fiction, non-fiction, the dictionary. She has lived a thousand lives apart from, maybe, her own. Her favourite book is a romance called Too Good to Be True. She’s got a first edition and all the special editions, but it doesn’t stop her from taking it out from the library whenever she can. Except recently someone keeps taking it out too and she’s forever on the waiting list for it. And worse still, one day there is a note from the mystery borrower – scolding her for bending the cover!

Esther is out with her two friends, bemoaning her lack of relationship, when she finds a magazine from the noughties. Seeking comfort – and a laugh – she turns to the dating advice only to find an article that feels a little too close to home. According to the journalist, there are seven people a woman will date before finding the one: The First Love, The Work Mistake, The Friend with Benefits, The Overlap, The Missed Chance, The Bastard and The Serious One. Her friends laugh but Esther realises each of her exes fits these roles perfectly.

It's Valentine's Day, and Ellie Knight finds herself eating Nutella in the bar stock after a no-show date. But single doesn't have to be the loneliest number, does it? She goes back home to her flatshare and weird flatmates. It's okay there's black mould everywhere, right? With a hangover from hell, she goes to the office job she thought she would have quit by now. Doesn't everyone hate their job? Maybe Ellie isn't following the official life plan, but perfect is overrated.

What do you get if you cross a dozen drunk hens with one shiny Butler in the Buff? Meet Lilah Fox. She's on the hen do from hell. Then she gets a message (44 of them, actually) from her best friend with big news: she's getting married in six months. Oh, and Lilah's her maid of honour. Which means she just got signed up for a military schedule of wedding fairs and weekly planning meetings, Excel spreadsheets and endless hen emails, and all the enforced, expensive fun you can imagine....

Siete oportunidades perdidas. ¿A cuál no debió dejar escapar? Esther está por cumplir treinta años, le va muy bien en su trabajo, vive en un departamento de ensueño con sus dos mejores amigas, pero su vida amorosa es un desastre. Cansada de estar soltera y harta de tener citas terribles, descubre una antigua revista que asegura que hay siete arquetipos de pareja con los que una mujer saldrá antes de encontrar al indicado. Al principio todo parece ridículo hasta que Esther se da cuenta de que sus exnovios encajan a la perfección con la teoría.

Nogle siger, at enhver rejse begynder med det første skridt … Den her begynder med en kæmpe bommert. Efter en fatal 30-års fødselsdag med for mange kedelige kærestepar, stærke shots og upassende sms’er til chefen, beslutter Alice, at der skal ske noget. Hun skal væk fra sit kedelige liv og opleve mere af verden på bedste Spis bed elsk-manér. Alice rejser afsted med målet om at realisere sig selv og møde en fyr eller to på vejen. Bevæbnet med en veludviklet forestillingsevne forvandler hun selv de dårligste dates til en #blessed-oplevelse på rejsebloggen.