Honeymoon
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Publisher Description
'Honey has doubts about her nice suitable man, she has doubts about commitment. And she still carries a torch for the man she calls the Love Of Her Life. Alex, someone she spent only one night with, seven years ago now. A perfect night. A night that makes her soul glow when she tells the story. A soul mate night.' Seven years on, with the memory of THAT night relegated to the realms of pure fantasy, Honey marries Ed, her nice suitable man, and unbeknown to her on the other side of the Atlantic, Alex marries another woman. As fate would have it, Honey and Alex do meet again. But what happens if they meet completely by coincidence, on a balcony in New York - even if they are both on their respective honeymoons?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The eponymous Honeymoon--Honey for short--of Jenkins's slick romantic comedy debut is a sassy successor to Bridget Jones. She is not a Jonesian singleton, however, and she's a lot more fun than a smug married; happily, she stands on her own two feet as a strong comic heroine. Seven years ago, Londoner Honey met Alex, an American businessman whom she immediately recognized as the Love of Her Life, although she spent only one idyllic night with him. Then he returned home and never called. On the rebound, she marries Ed, determined suitor and a nice guy whom she is certain is not her type. While standing on the balcony of her honeymoon suite in Manhattan, Honey looks across to the next balcony... at Alex, also on the first night of his honeymoon. This serendipitous meeting puts the bittersweet question into play: How does one seize the day, when the day appears to have passed? Despite constant self-deprecation, Honey is more maturely self-aware and intellectually brighter than previous literary creations within this genre, but she loses none of the frank raunch and charming self-involvement that readers demand. Then, too, there's a realistic and balancing dark side to some of her ruminations. Probably Jenkins's most winning device is to make both Alex and Ed so likable that it's easy for readers to sympathize with Honey's predicament. Jenkins sets the stage for a conclusion to this romantic quagmire that's anything but predictable. Film rights to Columbia Pictures. FYI: Londoner Jenkins has written and produced a Miramax feature called Elephant Juice; she is the creator of the British TV drama This Life.
