Not Exactly What I Had in Mind

Flatmates, friends or family? It's complicated...

Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as flatmates. They've also just slept together, which was either a catastrophic mistake, or the best decision of their lives.
Before they can decide, Hazel's sister Emily and her wife Daria arrive for a visit, setting in motion a chain of events that will turn everything upside down.
What follows will bind the four of them together, bringing joy and heartache, hope and anxiety, and reshaping their relationships in ways that none of them quite predicted.
Warm, witty, and devastatingly relatable, Not Exactly What I Had in Mind is a painfully true-to-life story about family, friends, and everything in between.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Kate Brook has a PhD in French Literature and Visual Art from King's College London, and a Masters in European Literature and Culture from the University of Cambridge. Her short-form writing has been published in The Fiction Pool and The Real Story. She lives in London, and Not Exactly What I Had in Mind is her first novel.

Zusammenfassung

Flatmates? Friends? Or something else entirely?

Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as flatmates. They've also just slept together, which was either a catastrophic mistake, or the best decision of their lives.

Before they can decide, Hazel's sister Emily and her wife Daria arrive for a visit, setting in motion a chain of events that will turn everything upside down.

What follows will bind the four of them together, bringing joy and heartache, hope and anxiety, and reshaping their relationships in ways that none of them quite predicted.

Warm, witty, and devastatingly relatable, Not Exactly What I Had in Mind is a painfully true-to-life story about family, friends, and everything in between.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kate Brook
• Verlag: Atlantic Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.07.2022
• EAN: 9781838955014
• ISBN: 978-1-83895-501-4
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Corvus
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / Friendship, contemporary romance, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, FICTION / LGBT / Lesbian, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / Feminist, FICTION / Nature & the Environment, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world