Tabloid Love
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
You're about to turn thirty, all your friends are getting engaged and pregnant - and your body-clock is ticking. Then you get an offer to move to New York. So you take a chance and break up with your boyfriend - only to land yourself in the singles capital of the world.
When Bridget Harrison arrived in Manhattan to work for America's most famous tabloid, the New York Post, she was in at the deep end from day one. Dispatched by day to cover murders and muggings in the roughest corners of New York, by night she began to write a column about her search for love in a dating shark tank. So far so Sex and the City - until she realised the one man she was falling for also happened to be her boss (and unfortunately this wasn't fiction).
THE HIGHS:
Being sent out to cover your first breaking news story
Having the chance to go on a new blind date every week
Realizing you love your editor
THE LOWS:
Finding no-one you interview can understand your accent
Going on a new blind date every week
Realizing you love your editor
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Harrison was 29 when she came to the New York Post through an exchange program with a London newspaper. After breaking up with her English boyfriend, her initial four-month stint turned into a permanent position, and soon the metro reporter acquired a Sunday column detailing her dating mishaps all the while nurturing a crush on one of her editors. The abrupt shifts in tone Harrison's typical day involves racing from the scene of a child murder to a dinner date with a matchmaker are jarring but manageable, thanks to Harrison's engaging voice, and the urban newspaper setting is a zippy backdrop for the real-life chick lit drama. It's particularly amusing when Harrison and her crush start dating, and she attempts to write about their relationship in the column by changing his vital information, failing to fool anyone at the Post. However, other scenes drag, and the saga limps on for more than 100 pages after Harrison's interoffice romance grinds to a halt. Harrison's misadventures will inevitably draw comparisons to those of the other Bridget (Jones), but with a little more practice, this young Brit could remove all confusion.