NEW RELEASE
Happily Ever After - Harriet Evans (2012)
After watching her parents' horrible marriage and bitter divorce, Elle Bee does not believe in fairytale endings. At age 22, Elle moves to London to work in a publishing house. As she works her way up the career ladder, she transitions from a naive girl wearing too short skirts to a career woman on the fast track to the top. As her career starts to thrive, her love life struggles to keep up. Her affair with her boss, Rory, results in her realising how much she still needs to learn. Ten years go by and Elle Bee is at the top of her career living in New York and engaged to a well-known author. A trip back to England might be the last chance Elle has to defy her beliefs and get her happily ever after. This novel is a wonderful realistic portrayal about the ups and downs of a woman balancing her career, her family and the many wrong men she encounters and the one right man who always appears at the wrong time. (AO)
Happily Ever After, by Harriet Evans, is about a romance novel editor invited to her first love's wedding. The summary says: "Eleanor Bee is a romantic daydreamer who, despite her parents' messy divorce, believes in true love and happy endings. But when her heart is broken by Rory - her boss and first love - she doesn't know which way to turn. How could something so wonderful have gone so wrong? Elle knows she has to move on and where better to nurse a broken heart than New York? Leaving behind her London life, she throws herself into a new job and a new city. But when she's invited to Rory's wedding back in London, it makes her realise that no matter where you go, the past has a funny way of catching up with you. Will Rory's wedding stir up old feelings? Or is there someone else waiting in the wings for Elle? And will she get her happy ending after all?" Happily Ever After is out in January (or June in the US, cover right). You can read an extract at the author's website.