My Legendary Girlfriend

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This didn’t happen however and following a slight detour in his five-year plan he ended up as an agony uncle for teenage girls’ magazine Bliss before becoming Features Editor on the now much missed Just Seventeen. Celebrate Mike Gayle's 25th year of publishing with this special anniversary edition of his first ever novel!There’s Alice (who remembers his birthday), Simon (who doesn’t), Martina (the one-night stand), Kate (the previous tenant of his rented Archway fleapit) and of course Aggi - the inimitable Aggi. In 2021, Mike was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Disguised as it is by the MIDI-sequencing that took over much of Separations, that very human, gut-driven funk is still the driving force. The first, The Atomic Blood-stained Bus , introduces you to a cannibal, an ex-god and the last witches of Britain, while the second, The Third Wheel , follows a man who is tired of being single while all his friends get married, but has a change of priority when aliens invade the planet.Fresh, endearing, and full of humor, My Legendary Girlfriend tells a story that will ring true for everyone who’s ever tried to mend a broken heart. Maybe the ever so slightly predictable ending irked me because in real life, things like that don't ever seem to happen. The way it's written and the way things are phrased really appeals to me, and it helps me in my own writing by allowing me to see how syntax and a turn of phrase can welcome one audience and alienate another. I'm thinking that it was an accidental purchase, since it's definitely geared to an adult audience, but when you read the blurb on the back it could really go either way.