Product Description

A wonderfully frank and funny novel about what happens when a woman falls in love with the best man...at her own wedding!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #398809 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
When the biggest event in a small town is a wedding, wouldn't it be helpful if you could find the bride? Richard (Dick) is about to embark on his second marriage in his hometown of Compton, Tasmania. The only problem is, his lovely wife-to-be, Sarah, has gone missing and the guests are melting in the heat. Harry, the biggest Debbie Harry fan in the world, is concerned for his brother Richard but is more concerned that his band "We've Got Blondie's Drumsticks and We're Gonna Use them" might not get to play. And Harry's band-mate Pippin is more interested in picking up one of the wedding guests than she is in playing in the band. Add Richard's best friend Tom and Richard's ex-wife Bronte to the mix and this colourful cocktail of characters is complete.

Tom, Dick and Debbie Harry tells the story of these six characters lives as they muddled through with a little "love and lust" in the Tasmanian bush. Jessica Adams was dubbed worthy of giving "Helen Fielding and Nick Hornby a damn good run for their money" by the Daily Telegraph for her first novel Single White E-mail and Tom, Dick and Debbie Harry is certainly a contender for the same accolade. --Neena Dutta

Synopsis
When Richard, a divorced but desirable vet from Tasmania, proposes to Sarah, an English Rose, she decides to accept and start a whole new life with him down under. The only problem is, though, that days before the wedding Sarah falls in love with Richard's best man, Tom, who's living with a much older woman. Meanwhile, Bronte, Richard's first wife, a Features Editor on a woman's magazine in Sydney is trying to cope with the news that her ex is marrying again. And Harry, Richard's younger brother, who has never got over his obsession with Blondie, is spending all his time chasing after the wrong women. Tom, Dick and Debbie Harry is a witty and, at times, hilarious contemporary novel about weddings, relationships, finding the right partner, shenanigans amongst friends and Australian eccentricity.

From the Back Cover
The lead singer of We've Got Blondie's Drumsticks and We're Going To Use Them has a problem. He only wants one woman in the world. And that woman is Debbie Harry. Unfortunately, he works in a bank.

His brother has a problem too. His wife has gone missing - on their wedding day.

Meanwhile, the best man is wondering whether it's okay to live with a woman old enough to be his mother.

By the end of the summer, one of these men will have fallen in love again - with the wrong woman.

Welcome to the world of Tom, Dick and Debbie Harry. Three men. Five women. One small town. Love and lust in all the wrong places. And a sexually dysfunctional Australian sheepdog.

Customer Reviews

Blonde Perfection
A brilliant read and fantastic pictures. Debbie Harry is the sexiest blonde to ever walk on GODS EARTH.
Blondie her band was under-rated at the time - but her music like her attraction is timeless.

Disappointing
I think the author has improved with experience, her late books especially 'Cool for Cats' are far superior to this one. The plot is ridiculously predictable and the ending is no real surprise. Quite poorly written and I found myself skipping paragraphs so I could finish it and move on...

Whacky and fun
Yet another one in the Helen Fielding mould, I thought... but I found 'Tom, Dick and Debbie Harry' refreshingly whacky. Not too intellectual, but quite heart-warming. And I liked the way everything tied up so neatly at the end, though I had thought that Sarah and Tom had found the real thing with each other. But then Sarah's emotions for Richard too were identifiable... A nice read, but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it to anyone without a similar kind of humour.