Getting Personal
by Chris Manby
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Why is it that your best friend always seems to end up with men who treat her badly? Why is that your best male friend seems intent on dating the kind of girl who thinks that Nietzche is an STD? Why is it that your own little black book looks more and more like the non-celeb client list of the Priory? Why can't any of you find someone quite right? Ruby, Martin and Lou are three old friends who have spent too much time talking about the ones that got away. Facing another summer without love, show more they decide to approach the dating dilemma in the way they approached finding flatmates. They're going to place personal ads. For one another. show lessTags
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So three people, successful in their careers, late 20's, no serious relationships, seeing several of their friends marry off and be happy decide to write personal ads for each other and organise blind dates to get each other out of the ruts they're in. This is the story of what happens. Some of it heavily implausable but very readable and the characters are recognisable. Mind candy reading but not too sweet.
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- Canonical title
- Getting Personal
- Original title
- Getting Personal
- Original publication date
- 2002
- Dedication
- This one's for Harrison Arnold.
- First words
- 'Will I ever be somebody's Whoopsie?'
That was the question on Ruby Taylor's mind as she watched the new Mrs Winky Foreman smash a lump of chocolate wedding cake into her brand-new husband's mouth. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'This is everything and more,' she said. 'It's everything and more.'
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- English, German, Japanese
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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