Kim and Harry have known each other for years but don’t get along at all. He’s a charming financial analyst who’s always hanging out with her hippie sister, Eva. But he can’t help but rub Kim – a research assistant at a charity - the wrong way. Fate tosses a few grenades into their lives and Kim is forced to put aside her antagonism for the sake of her family. With a quick wink at Jane Austen’s pride and prejudice theme, the book covers nearly a decade, the story cleverly sandwiched between scenes in a hospital waiting room. It’s an emotional read that will keep you on your toes.
Marianne Kavanagh's latest novel, Don't Get Me Wrong, is being billed as a modern-day Pride and Prejudice. The summary says: "Kim and Harry are total opposites who happen to have the same favourite people in the world: Kim's older sister, Eva, and her young son, Otis. Kim has never seen what her free-spirited big sister sees in a stuck-up banker like Harry and has spent her childhood trying to keep him out (must he always drive the most ostentatious cars and insist on charming everyone he meets?), while Harry's favourite occupation is provoking Kim. Both Harry and Kim are too stuck in their prejudices to care about what's really going on beneath the surface of each other's lives. They'll never understand each other - until the worst of all tragedy strikes. Faced with the possibilities of losing the person they both love most, long-buried secrets come to a head in ways that will change both Harry and Kim forever." Don't Get Me Wrong is out in August 2015.