NEW RELEASE
This is a Love Story - Jessica Thompson (2012)
When Sienna and Nick first laid eyes on each other, bonding over a squirrel on water skis, they fell in love. Only sometimes it isn't that simple; they're work colleagues (and Nick doesn't date work colleagues anymore) and Sienna has enough secrets in her home life to occupy her time without falling in love. The books tells both Nick and Sienna's story over five years as they try to fight their feelings for each other. This is a Love Story does exactly what it says on the tin. Told from both Nick and Sienna's point of view, you know the characters are made for each other and spend the book hoping they get together. This does mean at a few points in the novel you do want to bash the character's heads together in frustration! The book made me laugh out loud in places and get choked on tears the next. The novel is written with a quirky and fresh tone. It's a brilliant debut novel and is unashamed chick lit at its best. (AB)
London journalist Jessica Thompson's debut novel, This is a Love Story, is about a guy and a girl who fall in love at first sight - but then discover they work together. The summary says: "This is a love story. Boy meets girl and girl falls for boy - that much is true. But when Sienna meets Nick it's not the way it happens in love stories. It's because of a squirrel on water skis... She sees Nick's dangerous brown eyes and thinks, Don't. Fall. Into. Them. Who will be there to catch Sienna when she falls? She is so fragile. She has so many secrets, and he is not that serious. Funny and sad, this is the story of two people destined never to come together in the great love affair they crave more than anything else. Will they ever get it together or will Nick and Sienna's love story stay unfinished?" This is a Love Story is out in February.