I loved this book! Lizzie March is single, thirty years old and hoping to find the love of her life: The One. She is, in fact, a bit of a stalker and her prey as the book opens is Jake, the impossibly handsome, motor bike riding supervisor at her place of work, a call centre where it is Lizzie’s job to sell lots of wine on line.
Susannah Hardy is very clever at making Lizzie’s misadventures in the pursuit of love hilariously funny and at the same time unbearably sad. There is so much wonderful writing here that I do not wish to spoil anyone’s enjoyment of reading it by revealing any part of the story. Lizzie is so vibrant and so real that she practically jumps out of the pages inviting the reader to follow along and pick her up whenever she falls or, as in my case, take her home and tuck her into bed and tell her to stay there while I go and sort her life out for her.
This is what rom com means: romantic comedy at its finest! Lizzy finds herself in disastrous situations of her own making but her eternal optimism keeps her going just that little step too far until she falls into the next metaphorical pothole. The supporting characters in the story are all easy to picture, as are the Sydney locations.
In my opinion Susannah Hardy is Australia’s answer to Marian Keyes!
5 out of 5.
Published in Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
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