Having the right attitude and the perfect image are already an
essential part of Jo's life, but can she survive when life around
her starts to get complicated? Jo works for the PR company, Top
Spin, and is busy organizing a pop concert in aid of Meals For The
Homeless. Part of the publicity is a documentary behind the scenes
done by her producer boyfriend, Ed. However, the chance to win an
award is ever in his mind and he jumps at a more promising
opportunity, letting Jo down and putting her job on the line.
Desperate to save her job, she turns to country boy Charlie, who
needs a proper job but has neither the qualifications nor the image
to get it. So Jo sets out to teach him and to replace him in Ed's
job without anyone knowing - including Charlie. And so the cover-up
begins; but will it succeed or end in tears? Can she create a
career for Charlie while safeguarding her own, and in the process
not lose the one man she has grown to love? This is an engaging
love story of country meeting town, by the author of What is the
Matter With Mary Jane? and A Small Town in Africa. (Kirkus UK)
Daisy Waugh's commercial fiction debut is a wickedly funny satire
of the bitch-eat-bitch world of celebrity PR, with an unexpected
romantic heart. Welcome to the noughties. Can you take it? She's at
the top of her profession, but Jo's social life is as much a game
of survival as her work. This is London in 2001, where if you call
your boyfriend on his mobile, you have to disguise your number or
he won't pick up - he's always expecting someone more important to
ring. Where your best friends think nothing of cancelling at the
last minute, ten times in a row. Where commitment is a 'pencilled
option on mutual time'. Where flexibility is the new etiquette that
disguises plain rudeness. And success at work is everything. So
it's more than a little inconvenient when Jo falls for a gorgeous
singer, an upperclass dropout with an unreasonable attachment to
old-fashioned, human values. What is she thinking of, and how on
earth will she explain him to her friends? In Daisy Waugh's
sparkling satirical novel two worlds collide in a delightfully and
hilariously messy fashion - but will true love prevail?
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