Product Description

Daisy Waugh's commercial fiction debut is a wickedly funny satire of the bitch-eat-bitch world of celebrity PR, with an unexpected romantic heart. Welcome to the noughties. Can you take it? She's at the top of her profession, but Jo's social life is as much a game of survival as her work. This is London in 2001, where if you call your boyfriend on his mobile, you have to disguise your number or he won't pick up -- he's always expecting someone more important to ring. Where your best friends think nothing of cancelling at the last minute, ten times in a row. Where commitment is a 'pencilled option on mutual time'. Where flexibility is the new etiquette that disguises plain rudeness. And success at work is everything. So it's more than a little inconvenient when Jo falls for a gorgeous singer, an upperclass dropout with an unreasonable attachment to old-fashioned, human values. What is she thinking of, and how on earth will she explain him to her friends? In Daisy Waugh's sparkling satirical novel two worlds collide in a delightfully and hilariously messy fashion -- but will true love prevail?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #302741 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 293 pages

Review
'A hilarious, witty comedy of modern manners.' Adele Parks author of Game Over and Playing Away. 'Funny and worth a read' Company 'refreshingly sharp and witty social satire! pacey, unabashedly reactionary fable, and the author's astute observations are fleshed by plenty of insider know-how' Daily Mail 'funny, cynical, and genuinely knowing about media London! the most superbly reactionary fable' Evening Standard 'wicked modern satire' Daily Express

Evening Standard
‘funny, cynical, and genuinely knowing about media London... the most superbly reactionary fable’

Daily Express
‘a wicked modern satire’

Customer Reviews

Very very funny and also scary about London
This is humour at its best - painful as well as funny. The agonies of the smart London media set made me laugh out loud throughout the book (and guess what, there's also a real old fashioned love story too). The reason this book is so much better than just slick funny is that the author is clearly so at home in the world she describes, but sees through the desperation behind the eager smiles. Daisy Waugh can create a twist in emotion in the cleverest ways. If you wish you were back in London, read this, and thank God for rural England. If you're at the beginning of the media rat run read this, laugh, feel uncomfortable and beware. Well done Daisy Waugh and hurry up with the next one.

A bit of Bridget Jones meets Shopaholic
I could very easily have given up after the first chapter, but im glad I didnt. An enjoyable story but too similar to Bridget Jones diary and the Shopaholic series for me to rave about it.

A good story, but it felt like the plot was being very thinly stretched at the end. And who ever thought it was a bright idea to put the "New you rule" pages in a funky font wants shooting, bad idea and not neccesary, you could have left those pages out all together.

I would definitely read another Daisy Waugh book, but this one was more borrow it from the library rather than buy it ......

Disappointing
I have never reviewed a book on Amazon before. I am currently half-way through this one and feel compelled to write about how terrible and unrealistic it is. After living and working in London for 3 years now, I have not come across any one remotely like these one-dimensional characters; they have no depth to them at all. I can't believe that this has been published and it is no wonder I was able to buy it for 99p.
I am surprised I read as much as I have and am now going to stop reading it and pick up Marian Keyes instead to indulge in a book where I know I will be able to engage with the characters and enjoy a good plot.