THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
'A hilarious, sweet, smart read that you're going to love!' REESE WITHERSPOON
'A rollercoaster of modern love and dating' STYLIST
'Biting, pacy, great fun' SUNDAY TIMES
A TV script writer thinks she's done with romance, until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions: a humorous, sharp and tender novel from the bestselling author of Eligible, American Wife and Prep.
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Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy...
After a series of heartbreaks, Sally Milz - successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show - has long abandoned the search for love.
But when her friend and fellow writer begins to date a glamorous actress, he joins the growing club of interesting but average-looking men who get romantically involved with accomplished, beautiful women.
Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch, poking fun at this 'social rule'. The reverse never happens for a woman.
Then Sally meets Noah, a pop idol with a reputation for dating models. But this isn't a romantic comedy - it's real life.
Would someone like him ever date someone like her?
Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love, ROMANTIC COMEDY is a witty and probing tale of how the heart will follow itself, no matter what anyone says. It is Curtis Sittenfeld at her most sharp, daring and compassionate best.
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WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
'This book is heavenly. i just had a hilariously enjoyable masterclass in writing' *****
'Hilarious and screwball and warm' *****
'A book that helps transport you away' *****
'She makes the characters much more real than ordinary romcoms*****
Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, April 2023
Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick, April 2023
| ISBN: | 9781804991916 |
| Publication date: | 28th March 2024 |
| Author: | Curtis Sittenfeld |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Transworld |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 379 pages |
| Primary Genre | Literary Fiction |
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A book that makes you think, feel, and chuckle, Romantic Comedy is a treasure find for those who are just looking for a really good book to dive into this year. I look forward to going through Curtis's omnibus and being awed by her magnificent talent yet again.
For fans of SNL or television parodies such as 30 Rock or Studio 60, this is the perfect book for you! New to Curtis Sittenfeld, I was so impressed by her talent in creating (what seemed like) a recollection of her real life experiences that I actually stopped to see if she, indeed, worked on SNL. While her biography is very intriguing, she in fact did not. This leads me to believe she either binged on 30 Rock (like I have) or simply created a plausible universe that one could easily believe. In either case, to walk the halls of TNO along side Sally Milz was thrilling.... Read Full Review
