- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Plume Books (Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0452282128
- ISBN-13: 978-0452282124
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,007,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Excerpted from Thirtynothing by Lisa Jewell. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
'You're a student?' Something had come back to him from the night before.
'Yeah, that's right.' She was scraping her hair back into some kind of knot. The sun was playing on her and she looked quite pretty. She seemed strong and bright.
'Where d'you study ?' Dig was suddenly feeling vaguely sociable, as if he might quite like to see her again.
'God, you can't remember a thing we talked about last night, can you?' She smiled. She pulled a pair of yellow sunglasses from her rucksack and sat them on top of her head. 'Well' - she looked pleased with herself, a little embarrassed - 'I'm at sixth-form college right now, but my tutors reckon I'll get a place at Oxford next year - if I get my grades.'
Grades? Grades? Jesus! 'What - er, what grades?' Dig rubbed at the stubble on his chin.
'A Levels, of course.'
'So - you're - how old?'
'Seventeen.'
Oh dear God!
She was standing at the door now, her rucksack on her back, looking all of sudden like a child, like a small girl wearing big girl's clothes. She seemed to transmogrify before his eyes, her hips disappearing, her breasts deflating, her waist expanding, her hair morphing as he watched from stylish topknot to perky pigtails. Oh Jesus Christ! Seventeen!
'Hey, look,' she was saying, waving his ten-pound note at him, I'll find a way of getting this back to you - I promise. I have your number, I'll ring you.'
I'll ring you. I'll ring you!There was a child standing in his bedroom doorway, with a pierced belly button, waving his money at him and telling him she'd ring him. Jesus, what was the world coming to?
'Oh, and by the way - Happy Birthday.' She smiled at him, a nice, warm, intelligent smile, and then she was gone.
Happy Birthday. Oh yes, Happy Birthday indeed. Thirty years old. He was thirty years old. A thirty-year-old pervert. A dirty thirty old man. A heinous, raincoat-wearing, boiled-sweet-carrying, dribbling, drooling old man.
He'd slept with a seventeen-year-old.
OK, so it was the stuff of dreams, the stuff men of his age made lascivious, lustful jokes about over pints in pubs. But to have really done it, to be confronted with the reality of a seventeen-year-old in his bed. His little sister was eighteen and if he'd found out that she'd... with a man of thirty... he'd have... Well, anyway, it just didn't feel right. Dig suddenly felt a little to old to be chasing after much younger women.
The previous evening was starting to come back to him in dribs and drabs. Tequila slammers at Nadine's. Opening presents. Pints at the Lady Somerset with the rest of the crowd. All piling into a cab at midnight. Some club somewhere in town. (A club? They never went to clubs anymore.) More tequila. And then dancing - dancing for hours... God, he's probably looked a right arse. And that girl, that child... Katie! That was it, that was her name - Katie - except she'd pronounced it 'Kayday'... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Hardcover
I hate these types of books, you know the ones, boy meets girl, (usually in some trendy part of London), everything goes well, then badly...Will they? Won't they? - somehow it lurred me in, and I loved it! Regardless of the fact you know how it will end within the first 2 chapters, (or lines if you are familiar with this book genre), you just have to keep reading it!! How Jewel manages to snare the most suspicious of readers into becoming involved with the all too 'Friends-like' characters is to her eternal credit. A fantastic book to waste away the hours, on a plane, on the beach, in bed, in the bath, you'll take it anywhere and everywhere once you start this book (regardless of what your more rational side may be telling you)- be warned!
Format:Hardcover
FAB. Just Fab. I could not put this book down I read her other book Ralph's party and could not put that down and the same with this one! It was happy and sad. All thourgh the book you want Nadine to get with Dig (i would spoil the ending if i told you!). Read it!
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I loved Ralph's Party and recommended it to anyone who would listen.. and sneakingly bought it as a gift for my friends who loved it also. So i was keen for a repeat on Thirty Nothing. I liked the story line, a bit slow going but i managed to get there in the end...Although the ending was very predictable and sickly sweet. I have enjoyed Lisa Jewell's style of writing and the familiarity she has given to London...No doubt i will be looking forward to her next book.
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an amazing fairytale!!!
After being reccommended by a friend I took the plunge and read the book - I was not disapointed! From the moment i picked it up I felt drawn to the characters and sympathised... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2001
Better than Ralph's Party
This book was so much better than Ralph's Party! I was a bit worried when I started Thirty Nothing because I thought it was going to be the same as her first book, but it is... Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2000 by arsenalalice@hotmail.com
A fairly promising beginning which went downhill fast
The book started all right and got worse and worse. The characters are unconvincing and some of the situations are perfectly ridiculous and not particularly funny. Read more
Published on 23 Dec 2000
A fast-moving, hysterical,book which has you gripped
I was very worried when first reading this book, as i was afraid to make the asumption that it would be as good as Lisa Jewells other novel, Ralph's Party. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2000
It will take you on a trip only a heart can make!
Thirty Nothing begins with a noteable predictability. The end result is rather like the Titanic. We all know that it will sink! Read more
Published on 11 Dec 2000
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