From the Publisher
Art and Life collide behind the reception desk‘Forrester has created an unlikely new genre: imagine Stern crossed with Sue Townsend. Enormous fun.’ TIME OUT
Trapped in a temporary job in a sleepy academic institution, a nameless receptionist attempts both to conduct, and write a novel about, her love affair with the mysterious Man Who Mustn’t be Mentioned while impeded by the unwelcome distractions of paid employment.
‘If you carry on reading you will come across:
*The ins and outs of my frustrating and imperfect love-life.
*A few cod-philosophical spiels about this and that (I’m sorry, but I just can’t help myself)
*A story which starts slowly, gradually builds up to a devastating crescendo and then stays there for a while (I’m being rather optimistic with that last bit but I assure you, at least, that I will somehow find a way to stop being a receptionist and learn some useful truths about life and love before your very eyes).’
But soon a love story which was meant to start at the beginning and finish at the end gets out of hand, as narrator and reader are forced to grapple with such vital topics as Lunch, Master/Slave Dialectics, Evil, the invention of the telephone, the personal safety of the Queen’s husband and, above all, the confusing and comical relationship between fiction and real life.
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