Amazon.co.uk Review
Travelling East across the United States in a silver Thunderbird, Ellie Eversholt is a woman on a mission. She's
Looking for Andrew McCarthy, and hoping that when she finds him she can ask him a few pertinent questions, such as why, at the grand old age of 30, life hasn't turned out the way it was portrayed in the Brat Pack films of the 1980s.
Feeling misled by the glittering façade presented to her in the dimly-lit cinemas of her teenage years, bored with her career, fed-up with her failing love life and ashamed that at 30 she's still renting a room in a flat owned by Big Bastard, the Neanderthal flatmate-from-hell, Ellie needs some answers--and she needs them now. Gathering up a group of similarly disillusioned friends, Ellie makes her way to America, and together they set off, Thelma and Louise-style (except without the cliff-ending suicide pact) to criss-cross America in search of 80s screen idol Andrew McCarthy. In a tale which explores every avenue of the old saying "it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive", Ellie and friends on both sides of the Atlantic share in the joys and disappointments of her quest: a journey which takes her to the four corners of the States and brings her into contact with a variety of outrageous characters, ranging from hunky tanned scriptwriters to six foot tall transvestites and even Frosty II, the world's largest pig.
Does she find the real Andrew McCarthy? And will she ever come to terms with why she hasn't spent her life living in a huge apartment with billowing curtains, wearing a big pink dress and being dated by a succession of handsome men, like a modern-day Molly Ringwald? --Emily Lowson
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
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Review
'Colgan is on top form with this, her latest outrageous romp' Cosmopolitan 'Wonderful, warm and resonant for anyone who ever wondered what happened to teenage dreams' Hello! 'Jenny Colgan is one of the leaders of the pack and this, her third novel, will delight her legion of admirers!Fast-paced, funny, poignant and well-observed, it reads like a pastiche of the movies she loved!If a time capsule were buried to capture the world at the turn of the 21st century, this would be a candidate for inclusion' Daily Mail 'Did I like this book? Well, d'uh! Do hedgehogs have quills? A pure belter of a novel' Glasgow Herald 'Colgan's enjoyable new bestseller investigates the notion that having it all can sometimes mean having precisely nothing at all' Marie Claire October 'Colgan's talent as a stand-up comedian translates vividly into fiction' Metro 'Sharp, well-observed and hilarious' New Statesman 'What really sets Jenny apart! is this: she is very, very funny' Express 'Compulsively comical' Cosmpolitan (of Amanda's Wedding
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