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·出版社：William Morrow; 1st ed edition
·ISBN：0060096675
·条码：9780060096670
·装帧：平装
·开本：0开 0开
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Modern women don't believe in love. Believing in love carries roughly the same stigma as halitosis. It's as old-fashioned as going on a diet (as opposed to a detox).. . . I know all that and yet I do
With her first two irresistible novels, Anna Maxted won the hearts of readers everywhere. Now, inBehaving Like Adults,she introduces us to twenty-nine-year-old Holly, the sunny, optimistic owner of Girl Meets Boy, a dating service for those who are "beautiful inside and out." She's ambitious -- and successful -- with her matchmaking, but she hasn't quite fulfilled her own relationship dreams (her ex-fiancé, Nick, seems unlikely to progress from his job as Mr. Elephant, children's party entertainer). So when her friends dare her to pick a man off the top of the pile, she's game.
But in one awful evening the perfect-on-paper Stuart turns out to be a thorough cad, and Holly's belief in the goodness of humanity takes a hit. How can she make good matches when she can no longer trust her ability to read people? What does this mean for her business -- and her romantic future? Holly's friends and colleagues are drawn into the complicated drama of her life, while Holly learns her most important lesson: to trust herself.
作者简介
Anna Maxted lives in London with her husband Phil and their three sons Oscar, Conrad and Casper. Anna read English at Cambridge and works as a freelance journalist. She is also the author of the international bestsellers, Getting Over It, Running in Heels, Behaving Like Adults, Being Committed and A Tale of Two Sisters.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Anna Maxted is not one to shy away from difficult and emotionally traumatic issues. Here inBehaving Like Adultsshe tackles date rape having dealt with bereavement in her first book,Getting Over It, and with eating disorders in her second novel,Running In Heels. It sounds grim--"doomed chick lit"--but the joy of Anna Maxted's books (and they are joyful, despite everything) is the humour and sympathy of her writing.The heroine of this story is Holly, who runs a dating agency. She split up with Nick, her childish boyfriend of five years, because "he didn't know how to make an effort in a relationship" (he lives on "hygiene's edge" not washing or talking enough, and being a generally lacklustre dating companion). She decides to throw a party to celebrate the success of her business and chooses rich and arrogant Stuart as her date for the evening. He brings Holly home, pushes her to the floor, and rapes her, and she doesn't tell anyone. As she says: "as long as I skated along the surface of my composure, I was fine. There was more underneath, I knew, but it was dark and cold and deathly and I refused to go there."The rest of the novel deals with the repercussions of the rape, with Holly trying to carry on as normal, but being unable to. She is forced to redefine her life and her relationships, especially with Nick.Behaving Like Adultsis well observed, moving, funny and intensely readable. --Eithne Farry--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Daily Express
'Maxted deploys her razor-sharp human observation...Moving without being sentimental, riotously comic without being superficial.’--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Company
‘Funny and inspiring, you’ll be turning the pages until the small hours’--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
BApril, 2003
'a funny and thought provoking read'--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Company, June, 2003
'heartbreakingly spot-on'--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Hello!, 27th May, 2003
A razor sharp and witty read, with serious undertones'--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
From the Publisher
A STUNNING, EMOTIONALLY SATISFYING READ FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RUNNING IN HEELS--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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