Charley’s having the perfect day- throwing a typically lavish engagement party for her flatmate Sam, then finally receiving a text from her epically shaggable boss John asking on a long awaited date- unfortunately fate decides things are going a little too well and flings her down a hill breaking her pelvis and her leg in 2 places. Then things started to go really wrong. Her duties as director of communications for the launch of a lifesaving drug are passed to her evil deputy, Margot, and she discovers that John was actually trying to tell her that he’s engaged.

It’s just as well that Charley’s made of sterner stuff and incapable of doing nothing: In her 3 month enforced sick leave she starts a business ghost writing notes for those using dating websites. But things come to a head when her new enterprise takes off, she develops an unstoppable connection with one of her customer’s target dates, and she returns to work to do battle with the tenacious Margot.

Kooks for your Kindle?– Foul-mouthed top-heavy chef Hailey is Charley’s best friend, shed can always be counted on for un-sugarcoated honesty and has moved in with a sweetly nerdy guy she met online. John the boss is hard to resist, but doesn’t fit in as well with her friends and family. Flatmate and longtime friend Sam is a beautiful slob, aspiring actor and gentle soul despite his slutty ways. Charley’s twin sister Ness is more of a photographic negative than a mirror image, being tiny, chilled out and arty. The rest of her family are a bag of mixed nuts, none of them remotely like the driven Charley.

The Bella-Swan-Pathetically-Self-Sacrificing-Factor– While Charley is a six foot tall force of nature, it’s unusual to find a dedicated career woman with such a soft side. She loves to take care of her many friends, and to fill the little free time she has with extra curricular activities like languages and volunteering; she finds it amazingly hard to let go, be taken care of and do nothing for a while. This need to constantly schedule fulfilling self-improving activities and never have any downtime is a little frightening, and indicative of something missing in her life.

Nookie for your Nook?– Some, but the hilarious language is the part that will fail the mother-in-law-test!

Evaluation of your eBook?– I can occasionally be a little dense at guessing the twists in a book, preferring to be surprised, and didn’t get this one- others might! This was a very warm, adorable tale, without being sickly so, and the outcome (while it can be foreseen a little before it happens) is beautiful. I particularly adored the characters of Sam, who was very considerate and in touch with his feelings while still being like a disgusting younger brother, and Hailey, who really told it like it is. This is one of those books that stuck with me long after I finished it because the characters were so real and lovable. Charley’s banter with each of them was funny and realistic. The author seems to have started a theme of delightfully grandiose titles (this follows but is not a sequel to The Greatest Love Story of All Time), and i can’t wait to find out what comes next!

Frothy Ranking: 5/5 cocktails.

Can be obtained from:

UK: Amazon for £1.99

US: Sometimes on Amazon, click here to check, but not on kobobooks or ebooks at the time of this review.