Author:Tracy Bloom
From the bestselling author of No-One Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday ... Another very funny romantic novel.
What do you do when you find your love-life in ruins? Get revenge on every man who ever broke your heart of course....
Suzie Miller, a disillusioned agony aunt, can't believe she's been dumped from a great height yet again (this time by text, straight after they've had sex... twice!). So she decides the time is right to make every one of her exes feel the pain she felt when they carelessly cast her aside.
Her methods are unusual but humiliation on a grand scale is no less than they deserve.
Euphoric that she's finally stood up for herself she starts suggesting outrageous ways for her readers to deal with their relationship nightmares too. Suddenly everyone wants Suzie's advice. Finally content with being single and enjoying her blossoming career it seems as though happiness is within her grasp. That is until a man gets in the way.
Single Woman Seeks Revenge is a romantic comedy with a kick: a kick up the backside to any man who believes he got away with treating a woman badly and to any woman who doesn't fight back.
Warm, witty and wise... funny and thought-provoking in equal measure
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—— ObserverUtterly brilliant. I loved every single page. Galera is an extraordinary writer and this is a beautiful book. He sees the essential truths in his characters, and through them he sees those truths in us
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—— Deborah LevyA gorgeously tender, funny and big-hearted novel with wonderful characters you'll fall in love with
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—— Sunday MirrorYou're The One That I Want is a gorgeously tender, funny and big-hearted novel with wonderful characters you'll fall in love with
—— Miranda DickinsonBrilliant story about love, secrets and lies
—— Heat Magazine, Top Five BooksAn easy, relaxing read, perfect for a sunny afternoon
—— Daily MailFans of Marian Keyes and Cecelia Ahern will love Lucy Robinson's giggle-inducing humour, relatable characters and her ability to tackle tough topics in the most engaging way. With a twist that will leave you speechless, The Day We Disappeared by Lucy Robinson is a must
—— GlamourMagnificent…a luminary of historical fiction…writing history from the margins, the personal stories behind the era, she delivers profound, poignant stories that stir the emotions.
—— Press AssociationAll the intensity and lyricism of Hope’s debut, Wake
—— Daily MailThe Ballroom confirms her as a novelist of immense power...Exquisitely good. Sensitive, engrossing and highly recommended
—— MetroThe Ballroom is a beautiful, gripping, heart-wrenching, thought-provoking book. I was so enthralled, I read it in an evening, unwilling to put it down.
—— thewritesofwoman.wordpress.comAn atmospheric and thought provoking love story
—— bookslifeandeverything.blogspot.co.ukAn absorbing read from beginning to end . . . I'm already excited to see what Anna Hope does next.
—— thetattooedbook.blogspot.co.ukThis novel is at once romantic, thought-provoking and extremely poignant, with a rich narrative and an ending that moved me to tears
—— culturefly.co.ukGripping final chapters ramp up the suspense towards a hearth-wrenching conclusion ...explores the tensions and trials of the human condition with grace and insight.
—— New York TimesAbsolutely fantastic . . . I'm in real awe of her writing.
—— Elizabeth Macneal, author of THE DOLL FACTORYFates and Furies is a dazzling novel, its people and its prose wondrously alive from page one. At once intimate and sweeping, this is the story of a marriage as parallel myths-- flaring with passion and betrayal, with redemption and retribution, with the sort of heart-breaking, head-slapping secrets that make you want to seek out someone else who's read it. Lauren Groff is a powerful and graceful writer, one of the best of her generation.
—— Jess Walter, bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL RUINSAudacious and gorgeous…Deliciously voyeuristic but also wise on the simultaneous comforts and indignities of romantic partnership…In her previous work Groff proved herself a deft prose stylist, translating the familiar into the remarkable and transcendent. Fates and Furies further showcases this talent…In Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff has taken the struggles and pleasures of marriage and turned them into art, and in that artfulness she reminds us of the dangers and omissions that any storytelling requires.
—— Los Angeles TimesFates and Furies is devastatingly good, with the most satisfying ending I've read in a long time. The writing is gorgeous, the plot twisting, and the characters are almost too real – the only thing that keeps it from being the Platonic ideal of a novel is that it can only be read for the first time once. The only response that seemed sufficient in the hours after finishing it was to send several dozen roses, a cake, and my heart to Lauren Groff.
—— Sara Taylor, author of THE SHORE[Fates and Furies is] an engrossing portrayal of a marriage and of life – or how a marriage impacts a life – and is packaged into a deeply poetic and engaging novel of two halves… With frequent asides and a love letter to literature, theatre and art in its pages, Lauren Groff has created something truly incredible… It’s a clever, thought-provoking novel that questions the very notion of how possible it is to ever know someone entirely, all told in such a beautifully crafted way that I’m sure many new readings will be found with each much-deserved re-read.
—— Culture FlyIn a swirling miasma of language, plot, and Greek mythology, Groff weaves a fierce and gripping tale of true love gone asunder…Groff's prose is variously dewy, defiant, salacious, and bleak – a hurricane of words thrown together on every page. Yet so much of the power in this book lies in what's unspoken…It's an intoxicating elixir.
—— Publishers Weekly (starred review)Fates and Furies will keep you gripped until the end. It’s a fascinating study of how relationships are sustained and sacrificed…it is sumptuously written at every turn. For an autumn read to get firmly stuck into, look no further.
—— Running in HeelsAn absorbing story of a modern marriage framed in Greek mythology. Groff’s sharply drawn portrait of a marriage begins on a cold Maine beach, with newlyweds “on their knees, now, though the sand was rough and hurt. It didn’t matter. They were reduced to mouths and hands.” This opener ushers in an ambitious, knowing novel besotted with sex – in a kaleidoscope of variety – much more abundant than the commune-dwellers got up to in Groff’s luminous Arcadia (2012). The story centers first on Lancelot “Lotto” Satterwhite, a dashing actor at Vassar, who marries his classmate, flounders, then becomes a famous playwright. Lotto’s name evokes the lottery – and the Fates, as his half of the book is titled. His wife, the imperial and striking Mathilde, takes over the second section, Furies, astir with grief and revenge. The plotting is exquisite, and the sentences hum; Groff writes with a pleasurable, bantering vividness . . . An intricate plot, perfect title, and a harrowing look at the tie that binds.
—— Kirkus (starred review)Fates and Furies captures the vagaries of passion and marriage in ebullient prose.
—— Arifa Akbar , Independent (Best Fiction of 2015)Like a classic tragedy, Groff’s novel offers high drama, hubris, and epic love, complete with Greek chorus–like asides. A singular and compelling literary read, populated with extraordinary characters; highly recommended.
—— Library Journal (starred review)Comparisons to Gone Girl seem on the surface to fit perfectly. We have a golden couple, Lotto and Mathilde, we have a dark past – like Amy, Lotto is an heir to a large fortune. Yet Fates and Furies is far more subtle – Groff is considering the very nature of story-telling itself… I was reminded more than anything of Macarthy’s The Group... The fates and furies who narrate the novel are never intrusive, their interventions are rare and they pass on the whole unnoticed, but I felt that this worked better than a more grandiose presence might have done. Through them, Groff channels a grace for her protagonists – this is not a story of heroes and villains but rather of humans who long to be better than they are.
—— NudgeAn exploration of marriage that turns expectations upside down, all told through the snarkiest omniscient narrator since Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
—— Guardian (Readers' Books of the Year 2015)A really powerful novel
—— President ObamaFates and Furies is a lyrical and, at times, astonishingly beautiful account of how little it is possible to know about those closest to us
—— Financial Times[An] edgy symphony.
—— Independent Magazine[An] ingenious novel…buttressed by real emotional power.
—— Mail on SundayThere are two sides to every story and the author delivers both of them with brilliant authenticity. A must read.
—— Town and Country (Christmas List)My favourite book of 2015 was Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies (although I’m sure lots of people will pick this one!). I was given it by a friend and devoured it in two days. I felt as though I could have gone on reading it forever.
—— WH Smith (Books of the Year)Fascinating...a joy to read.
—— SavidgeReadsA truly brilliant book which I completely fell in love with.
—— VogueA forensic dissection of marriage, lyrically told.
—— Alexis Zegerman , Jewish Telegraph