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Ratings59
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Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped.
Now he is. . .
Without a home
Waiting for his stand-up career to take off
Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking
Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story…
In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.
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I've loved Dolly Alderton's other works and hadn't read any sort of synopsis and I found myself mildly horrified that this is written from a man's perspective. It turns out I haven't read any book from a man's perspective that wasn't a dual perspective romance novel for a year. I pushed through to find the writing as witty and insightful as ever. I would say it's quite bleak in regards to it's perspective on relationships and the male friendships were beyond belief and had me yelling in frustration. Never before have I been so glad to be a woman.
I listened to the audiobook and it's one of the best performed and produced audiobooks I have heard lately. Some audiobooks (even bestsellers) have editing errors like repeated lines after accidentally left in misspeaks, and narrators who sounds unnatural or is obviously reading. This one however is flawless.
I felt like High Fidelity did it better but the Julian Assange bits almost made up for it
