Love: A User's Guide: A Novel of Romance with Attitude - Softcover

Naylor, Clare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345478967 ISBN 13: 9780345478962

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2004

Synopsis

Working for Vogue, Amy spends her days dressing waif models in London's latest apparel while fending off insults from the Gucci-garbed staff. Hardly the glamorous job she hoped it would be. But that won't stop her from fantasizing about the jet-set life she knows she's destined for--or the prince who's bound to redeem her from a less than glowing record in romance.

However, beneath her dreamy exterior, Amy has a sure streak of common sense. So when the impossible happens--and her path crosses that of London's hottest film star--she swoons with longing, expecting nothing in return. But Orlando Rock has other ideas. For Amy is just the kind of girl he's after--smart and witty, with a penchant for quoting from the classics, different from the daft supermodels and vain leading ladies he's dated before. Or is she? For with fame, fortune, and true love just around the corner, Amy's head is spinning, her jet-fueled imagination poised for takeoff. Is her love for Orlando stronger than her lust for the limelight--or is she merely fated to be the paparazzi's latest prey . . .?

Hip and hilarious, this enchanting, sizzlingly sexy tale of a winsome twenty-something caught between romance and reality will have you rooting her on through each outrageous mishap and daring plunge toward love. . . .
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

About the Author:

CLARE NAYLOR is the author of The Goddess Rules, Catching Alice, and Dog Handling, and the co-author of The Second Assistant with Mimi Hare. She lives in England.

From Kirkus Reviews:

A British debut considers the superficiality of stardom with quirky, careless charm. Amys adventures, relayed in a bright, tongue-in-cheek narrative, begin with a fairly quiet weekend on the Dorset coast. Away from her pins-and-needles job as an assistant at Voguethe impossible lure of that Prada skirt, the perfect waifish posing of the models, the Eurotrash cattiness of those in charge can really bring a girl downjet-setter wannabe Amy has few expectations for her country respite, though she quickly learns that fate knocks on the door only when your face is covered in cucumber mask. While frolicking al fresco in the best-dressed sort of way, shes introduced to the impossibly beautiful Orlando Rock, leading man of every Bronte-Hardy-Forster film of recent memory. As luck would have it, the two keep bumping into each other and begin to dateeven though, to Amys horror, Orlando is just a regular Joe: more fond of beer than champagne, greasy spoons than celebrity hot-spots. Amys hunger for glamour goes quickly undernourished, and she begins to dig her own grave. After a perfect vacation in Australia, she begins bragging about her liaison with Orlando, passing around snaps and relating the details of their love life for all and sundry to hear. Which makes her just the kind of woman publicity-shy Orlando is afraid of, having just divorced a media-slave wife. After a series of mishaps and confusions (contributed to in large part by Amys evil flatmates), Amy leaves Orlando and hops on the 15-minute roller coaster of fame-by-association. The problem is that Orlando is truly in love with Amy, and she thinks shes probably in love with him, toothe real him, that is. Lighter than marshmallow Fluff, but also fun ... la Bridget Joness Diary. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0345478967
• ISBN 13: 9780345478962
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 304