NEW RELEASE
No Sex in the City - Randa Abdel-Fattah (2012)
Esma is looking for her Mr Right - but he has to be a Muslim like her. The never-been-kissed 28-year-old sets up the No Sex in the City group with her Sydney friends Nirvana, an Indian midwife; Ruby, a Greek lawyer; and Lisa, a Jewish refugee caseworker. Then just like waiting for a bus, along come two suitors at once - Metin, a doctor, and Aydin, a filmmaker. Esma, a recruitment specialist, also thinks that her boss Danny may be sexually harassing her but she can't just up and leave her job as she is helping out her father. This debut adult title from the author of Does My Head Look Big in This? focuses on dating in Australia from the perspective of people from different backgrounds. Esma is definitely not some ditzy single - she does volunteer work with refugees so has a strong social conscience. This comes with lots of laughs.
No Sex in the City is the first adult novel from Randa Abdel-Fattah, the Sydney-based lawyer and author of young adult titles including Does My Head Look Big in This? The synopsis says: "Twenty-eight-year-old Esma has a Masters in human resources management, never orders just a salad, is well-travelled, has excellent taste in music, watches the ABC news, has The Guardian saved as an application on her iPhone, knows all the two-letter words in Scrabble and can tell the difference between a Ford and Holden. Armed with a personalised check-list, she's on the hunt for Mr Right, who must be Muslim. Along with her three friends Lisa, who works with refugees, lawyer Ruby, and midwife Nirvana, they form the No Sex in the City club. Love is hard to find and when family, friends and meddling employers are thrown into the equation, the path to true love suddenly takes a great big detour." No Sex in the City is out in July.