Everything Nice
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- 1,99 €
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Beschreibung des Verlags
Super-slick, super-independent, Michaela “Mike” Edwards is a lady going places. Or so she thinks. Once unexpectedly fired, her career as a young advertising hot-shot is over just like that. Before long she’s doing the unimaginable: moving back in with her widowed father to help make those pesky ends meet - it’s clear she needs to rethink her life. Maybe she should start with trying to unravel those complicated feelings she’s been having about her best guy pal, Aussie journalist Gunther...?
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Here's a chick lit heroine with beauty and brains and a bad-ass attitude that lands her in trouble. Out-of-work, out-of-love and out-of-luck, take-no-prisoners ad copywriter Michaela "Mike" Edwards faces off with a gaggle of giggly 12-year-olds in a "life skills" class. In a hilarious sendup of new-fashioned home ec, Mike rewrites the curriculum to accommodate information the charter school girls can actually use, and discovers, to her surprise, "that she cared." Her reinvention as daughter to her widower father Gerry (who raised her solo) and stepdaughter-to-be of his fianc e, Deja, is a lot rockier but no less rollicking. Along the way, ex-boyfriend Jay (whose standup comedy brutally strips away the artifice of their relationship) and Aussie journalist best-pal Gunther help attune Mike to what she's searching for. Shanman's second novel (after Right Before Your Eyes) is a gem of razor-sharp wit and impeccable timing, and though things sag in the blended extended family passages, this is a great anytime read that comes just in time for summer vacation.
