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: #202026 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

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.

Customer Reviews

It's the best!
I LOVED the book, I have allready read it twice, and it's the best I've ever read! I love the way you can read both Amy and Jacks minds, and how they think! It is a lot of fun, and you can relate to the caracters!! Well done!! I really love the person Jack, he makes me laugh! a lot, out loud.. OH.. it's the best!! I highly reccomend it to everyone! Even though I'm not 27, (only ten years left..) I find it super-duper-fun!!!! Hannah ;0)

BRILLIANT!
I don't usually read books, I'm more into Cosmo. and magazines. But I had read such great reviews in magazines about this book that when I saw it in my local bookshop, I just had to buy it to see what the fuss was about. What a great decision that was! I could not put this book down. Each time I did, I couldn't concentrate on anything else, so I had to start reading it again! I finished it within about 2 days, and I have read it many times over since. I could really relate to the characters in the book as I am around the same age, and I could empathise with Amy a lot. I have leant it to many friends, and even my mum has read it! - they all think it's fab too. I read a couple of other books after Come Together, and none of them came close to the quality and page turning momentum.

A new lad in the life of Bridget Jones
Meet Amy and Jack, they are both 20 somethings with something missing from their lives. With Amy it's sex, with Jack it's something harder to define.

Quite simply this tale is told from two differing perspectives, that of the Male and the Female. Or to put it another way, that of loaded meets Bridget Jones.

Jack lives an unrealistically new laddy lifestyle. He is an artist who lives in a converted pub with his best mate. His dialog seems to have been lifted directly from the 'Right Mate' school of prose, with every other sentence appearing to start, finish or contain that immortal phrase.

Amy on the other hand seems to be a budget Bridget Jones, a Bridget Jones lite if you like, with many of the same characteristics and mannerisms of her more famous predecessor.

All in all the novel just seems to reinforce the late 90's stereo types of single behaviour. It is as likely to become as dated as a Gary Glitter single

An enjoyable enough read if you want something to pass the time on the train, but hardly as daring and challenging as the hype would suggest.