Product Description

Meet Jack: Jack Rossiter. I'm twenty-seven years old, single, and live with my best mate Matt. Matt and I started hanging out when we were eight. Life was simpler then. Our idea of fashion was polyester. I told him I wanted to be a spy and he asked me who I'd marry. I imagined falling in love with a girl so perfect I couldn't even guess her name. Things have changed since then. I did fall in love for a while but it didn't work out. And single is good, single is fun. Meet Amy: Sometimes, in my darker moments, I've thought about trying internetdating. But surely it can't be that hard to find what I'm looking for? All I want is the right job and the right man. But all I ever manage is the wrong place at the wrong time. It's been six months since I last had sex. Six months! Well, enough is enough. This is the year I'm going to sort it all out for good. This year Amy Crosbie's going to have it all. Now find out what happens when they meet each other ...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73995 in Books
• Published on: 1999
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 295 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Amy, a worn-out twenty-something on a B-road to nowhere, sitting at a set of traffic lights at Sex Corner that have been stuck on red for six months, and merrily kidding herself that the slowest route with the greatest number of hurdles will eventually make her happy, meets Jack.

Also single, Jack lives his life as if on the outside lane of a motorway driving a Porsche, living fast and playing hard, occasionally taking a slip road to Shag Town where he can be guaranteed a different woman at every exit, zooming off into the sunset as soon as he has finished and neatly avoiding commitment as he puts his foot to the floor and accelerates to the next junction.

A witty, shrewd and ultimately highly entertaining novel, Come Together takes a new route over traditional terrain, seeping into the psyche of one man and one woman as they take their first tentative steps towards coupledom. As Lloyd and Rees deftly switch from his point of view to hers, the reader eavesdrops on two different takes of the same situation, highlighting those all important differences between the complicated mating rituals of the male and female of the species.

Guaranteed to cause arguments over a pint, this light, enjoyable novel adds a new twist to the Bridget Jones phenomena, taking the "woman in search of a meaningful relationship" one step further, in a refreshingly different take on a familiar theme. --Susan Harrison

Review
One (raunchy) novel, two voices: his and hers. Lloyd's and Reese's collaboration is the first romantic comedy to be told from both the man and the women's viewpoint - in alternate chapters. Jack is a determinedly footloose one-nighter where 'relationships' are concerned. Amy wants love and commitment. Incompatibility is the word that springs to mind. A late 1990s dilemma told in classic time-honoured romantic-comedy style involving dates, drink, misunderstandings, shouting matches, best friends, true love and undisguised lust. Who'll win the sexual battle? Well, the alternate chapters were written by friends who became engaged after completing the book. (Kirkus UK)

It's "he said/she said" time in this jointly authored debut describing the rocky course of true love from the vastly differing perspectives of the man and the woman in question. Jack Rossiter is one of those struggling young artists who get down on their knees early every morning before they go to bed and thank God that He has spared them the torments of a real job. A painter living in London, Jack works a couple of days a week at a chichi Mayfair gallery but spends most of his time drinking with mates and picking up girls. He lives in an old pub owned by his best friend Matt (a lawyer), and he and Matt are able to make good use of the still-intact bar and pool table to throw some of the most raucous parties in West London. Somehow or other, Jack sleeps with Amy Crosbie one night, thereby setting in motion a chain of events he could never have imagined - related here in chapters that alternate between Jack's and Amy's first-person narratives. Amy is an aspiring fashion designer working as a temp, and once Jack gets around to giving her a "morning after" call a couple of weeks later, the two get together with a vengeance, and Jack actually falls in love. They go to Brighton together, leam how to hold hands in public, and everything is fine until Jack seduces an artist's model and Amy finds out. Jack professes sorrow, but Amy is not so sure. Can she trust this character?. Would you? Fortunately for the reader, the course of true love is crooked enough to keep the story moving in interesting directions, but not so tangled as to keep it from straightening out nicely in the end. Standard boy-meets-girl stuff, but told with real wit and flair. (Kirkus Reviews)

About the Author
Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees each had novels of their own published before teaming up to write Come Together, Come Again, The Boy Next Door, Love Lives and We are Family. They are married and live in London with their two daughters.