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Dinner for Two (2002)

by Mike Gayle

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Dave Harding's got a wonderful wife, a beautiful home, and a job he could do in his sleep...So no one is more surprised than Dave when he hears his own biological clock start ticking. Loudly. Unfortunately, his better half, Izzy, has no nine-month plan for fat ankles or a credit line at Baby Gap. With even worse timing, the music magazine Dave writes for folds. Desperate for work, he's forced to become an advice columnist for a teen magazine.But he's about to get a serious wake-up call.Wading through letter after letter of adolescent angst is the last thing Dave wants to do, especially since he could use some help dealing with his own. But one letter is about to make all his little problems disappear -- and replace them with one big one.The letter is from a teenage girl named Nicola. But she doesn't need advice about boys, or friends, or the latest fads. She's looking for her father, whom she's never met. She's looking for a man to call Dad.She's looking for Dave.… (more)
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  Nataliec7 | Oct 31, 2016 |
I enjoyed this book. Easy to read, likeable characters and a good ending. Another great from Mike Gayle. ( )
  Nataliec7 | Jan 5, 2015 |
Bloke-lit in the vain of Tony Parsons or Nick Hornby. I did enjoy seeing life from the other side of the gender divide.

Dave is a music journalist, he has been with his wife for 6 years and is ecstatic when she announces she is pregnant. When Izzy miscarries and declares she doesn't want to try for another, he pretends to agree. Then the magazine he is working on, and he ends up as the new agony uncle on a teen magazine. Amongst the petitions for help, a letter arrives from a 13-year-old girl, Nicola, claiming to be his daughter.

Dave is a decent bloke, a sensitive boyfriend, but finds it difficult to rock the boat with Izzy. Izzy is not a cold woman, but after suffering a miscarriage is understandibly reluctant to try again, in case it happens again. It is their lack of communication which causes the tension, more than the arrival of Nicola.

Gayle manages to pull off a realistic family / relationship drama with flashes of humour, especially as a 30-something-year-old man struggles with working for a teen magazine. The musical references do date the book a bit, but as they are bands I remember, I liked them. ( )
  soffitta1 | Jun 6, 2011 |
It was a good, light-hearted piece of fiction. It's hard not to adore the protagonist. He is a kind and sensitive man. The end was very excellent as well. ( )
  understudy52 | Jun 26, 2010 |
This book was one too many about babies and trying to conceive them I read over the past couple of days. I couldn't really relate to the people in the book, but I kept on reading, because frankly the main character sounds like he is the best boyfriend in the world. I'm starting to suspect that Mike Gayle, is in fact a woman.
  verenka | Jun 15, 2010 |
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Dave Harding's got a wonderful wife, a beautiful home, and a job he could do in his sleep...So no one is more surprised than Dave when he hears his own biological clock start ticking. Loudly. Unfortunately, his better half, Izzy, has no nine-month plan for fat ankles or a credit line at Baby Gap. With even worse timing, the music magazine Dave writes for folds. Desperate for work, he's forced to become an advice columnist for a teen magazine.But he's about to get a serious wake-up call.Wading through letter after letter of adolescent angst is the last thing Dave wants to do, especially since he could use some help dealing with his own. But one letter is about to make all his little problems disappear -- and replace them with one big one.The letter is from a teenage girl named Nicola. But she doesn't need advice about boys, or friends, or the latest fads. She's looking for her father, whom she's never met. She's looking for a man to call Dad.She's looking for Dave.

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