Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #332914 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 324 pages

Synopsis
In many ways, Adam is the perfect boyfriend. He never wants to watch the football. He never gets drunk. And he always prefers a quiet night in to going out with his mates. The only problem is, Adam doesn't actually exist. Faith Wishart made him up. In fact, Faith makes almost everything up in order to please her mum. She pretends she works for a top PR company, when really she works in a shop - as a make-up girl for Keats cosmetics. But her mum is itching to meet the mysterious Adam, and when her younger sister, Hope, returns unexpectedly from Australia with her fiance, it's not wedding bells that are ringing for Faith. It's alarm bells. She now has less than two months to solve her boyfriend's non-existence problem in time for the wedding and desperate times call for desperate measures...

Customer Reviews

Fast paced and funny read!
I loved Andera Semple's first novel, 'The Ex-Factor', and I thought this one was even better. She has such a dry sense of humour, and I found myself laughing out loud at Faith's attempts to keep everyone happy.

Pefect summer read, and I can't wait for the next!

Make-up from a few other authors.
I read Andrea Semple's first book and thought that it showed a great deal of potential as a first novel goes, this book is a complete waste of paper - though most of it was empty as a whole chapter took up two pages but was possibly only one full page of text with space either side of it!?
The only saving grace of this was the way it was written, not bad as writing goes, but the content was utter tripe, stolen from so many other different formats that I couldn't keep up, as another reviewer said, some is pure Sophie Kinsella, some stolen almost directly from the Bridget Jones movie and Melissa Senate's See Jane Date, but to name a few. I was not on the whole impressed with this book and could not wait till the end, mainly because I had guessed the majority of the storyline long before the truth was revealed, mainly about the brothers preferences in the bedroom, who the love would be, who the love's Dad turns out to be...and on and on and...
It's a great shame this book wasn't better as the idea sounded okay at the start - even though it was extremely similar to the one set in New York by Melissa Senate - and the style in which it was written could be engaging, if only the content wasn't such a completely stolen pile of rubbish.
I'm now having second thoughts about reading the next offering...

Brilliant!
Have just finished this book, and I have to admit, I could not put it down.

This is in fact Andrea Semple's second helping after The Ex-Factor, which I have unfortunately not read (that is, until it arrives on my doorstep hopefully next week). After reading the book's synopsis, I thought it would be a funny, light read - I was more than happy.

Faith Wishart is a make-up girl. Not a model, not a make-up artist - a department store make-up girl. However, her mother thinks that she has a top PR job. Why? Because Faith made it all up. She has also invented her own perfect boyfriend to please her mother. All she needs is the real version - and that's when it all goes horribly wrong.

After losing her dad, her mother has turned cleaning into an obsession. Her successful brother practically wears a halo, and her runaway sister has recently turned into a celebrity. But Faith is simply a makeup girl. Hardly impressive, ro so she thinks.

Without giving too much away, I have to say that this is a fabulous read. Despite the fact that Faith Wishart is a character so unbelievable it's - well, unbelievable - it's definitely one of those read-in-a-day titles.