Product Description

Everyone tells Sarah Giles how lucky she is to be engaged to Paul O Brian a handsome hotshot who's financially secure, knows how to throw the perfect dinner party...and taught Sarah how to, uh, take care of herself. Everyone thinkshe s great. Except for Sarah. But she has too much on her plate trying to become career woman of the year and hiding the fact that her seemingly blissful relationship is all but celibate (those lessons he gave her should come in handy) to figure out what's wrong with Mr Right, let alone qualify for the role of perfect fiancée. Meanwhile, what started as an innocent office flirtation with a man named John Wayne (really), has now moved beyond illicit lunches and harmless text messaging, and is fast turning into erotic obsession. Sarah can t get John out of her head and she s plunging deeper into a double life. But which life is the lie? Torn between two men, and trying not to lose sight of her own dreams, Sarah writes a scandalously honest diary of one life-changing year, and faces the challenge of writing her own happy ending...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93950 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
'Bridget Jones was, of course, the last word in chick-lit diaries. However, Tucker gives the genre new legs with this humorous account of sassy Sarah Giles caught between a celibate relationship with City banker Paul and an erotic office flirtation with a man called John Wayne.' --The Mirror

.'..earthily honest dairy...' --Peterborough Evening Telegraph

'A gritty and emotional diary about the complexities involved when leaving the singleton's life behind.' --Heat

Irish Examiner
'A painfully honest and emotionally raw diary. Tucker's novel is much more than your standard chick-lit tale'

The Book Review
'an amusing but at times serious look at modern day relationships. Sarah Tucker’s novel is a fun character study'

Customer Reviews

Abysmal, contemptible trash
This novel is inept in every possible way.

For a start - the dull, meandering 'plot': should the heroine remain faithful to sleazy knobhead boyfriend for whom she has a deep spiritual lurve or should she have an affair with sleazy knobhead colleague who is a rampant sexual animal? She drivels on about this for 200-odd pages. It's like being stuck inside the head of a particularly idiotic, self-obsessed teenage girl.

The characters hardly even qualify as one-dimensional - they are just collections of designer labels, cliched likes and dislikes, and flat, boring conversations, mostly about nipples or marriage. The dialogue is much like listening teenagers wittering on at the back of a bus, only less insightful and interesting. The heroine is completely unconvincing - we are constantly told how intelligent and special she is. She is not. The author attempts to imitate the style of Bridget Jones's Diary ('Must go to gym', 'Must stop obsessing about X' etc etc), but lacks Helen Fielding's skill and wit and ends up with a novel that reads like a shopping list. It is full of irritating mistakes: her friend is 'bonking' a yoga instructor who turns into an aerobics instructor a few lines later; she makes a big deal about wearing trousers for her hot date with the sleazy colleague, then later, back at his house, she has apparently changed into a skirt.

Chick-lit can be fun - a guilty pleasure, like watching Trisha in bed. But this is just shoddy, cynical crap. Avoid

Great read...
From the moment I picked it up I couldn't put this book down. Thoroughly enjoyed all characters and plot, my only complaint is that it should have been longer. Sequel please!!!!!

Super read
I think sarah tucker's book was a superb read, not too heavy a pleasant book to get stuck into! Reading some of the comments people have made on here I think there a tad harsh on the book, i really don't think it's that bad a book. Anyway if your going on holiday and want a good book to read lying on the beach then this book is well worth buying.