London girlfriends. Tasha is intelligent, sophisticated, and
successful-just like her best pals Mel, Emma, and Andy, who meet
for lunch once a week and chat incessantly. Alas, a dreary but
inescapable truth has cast a pall over their sunny fantasies of
lifelong love: Men Are Bastards. Especially the handsome ones. Oh,
bloody hell-why are these four brave women such fools? Are all
males of the species cruel and selfish? Yet handsome bastards
remain must-have accessories. Television producer Tasha still pines
for Simon, a fabulously witty editor who dumped her for a blond
model. Therapist Mel-so good, so genuine-must cope with the antics
of Daniel, a lecherous lawyer. Emma simply cannot get Richard, her
significant other, to commit. And Andy, the youngest, happily
flirts with all comers, sadly unaware that she too is doomed to
suffer the pain of unrequited passion. Different kinds of pain are
explored in exhausting detail: the Pain of Being Single, of a
Meaningless Relationship, of Divorce, of Marriage. Perhaps, muses
Tasha, it's all the fault of her mother, who endured her handsome
husband's infidelities for too long. Her irritating shrink, Louise,
concurs. Could it be that Tasha's childhood plumpness was an effort
to comfort herself with food? Louise is quick at making these
connections and repeatedly pointing out the obvious. When not
soaking dozens of Kleenexes in Louise's office, Tasha goes out with
Simon's friend Adam, a kindly bear of a man who is unfortunately
far too normal and unexciting. And so she finds herself inexorably
drawn to a suave heartbreaker (see above: unresolved Oedipal
issues), as if searching for more proof that men are indeed no
good. The girlfriends weigh in with their opinions-so many
insights! Pages of them! But Adam soldiers on, determined to
demonstrate his fundamental decency-and surprising skill in bed.
Happy ending. Not previously published in the US, this is Green's
first outing, precursor to the much more entertaining Jemima J
(2000) and Mr. Maybe (2001). (Kirkus Reviews)
This could be about your best friend. Or your girlfriend. Or it might be about you.
Are you Tasha - single and still searching?
Are you one of her three best friends? Andy, hooked on passion; Mel, stuck in a relationship with a bastard; or Emma, endlessly waiting for her other half to propose?
Do you know an Andrew - suave, good-looking and head over heels in love ... with himself? Or a Simon - allergic to comittment and dangerously treacherous? Or an Adam - handsome, kind, humorous, but too nice to be sexy?
Follow them all in their odyssey to find fulfilment and the RIGHT kind of love in this novel that is very funny, painfully honest, sometimes sad but always on the button.
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