The New You Survival Kit Paperback – 2 January 2002
Daisy Waugh . HarperCollins . English
Daisy Waugh's commercial fiction debut is a wickedly funny satire of the bitch-eat-bitch world of celebrity PR, with an unexpected romantic heart. Welcome to the noughties. Can you take it? She's at the top of her profession, but Jo's social life is as much a game of survival as her work. This is London in 2001, where if you call your boyfriend on his mobile, you have to disguise your number or he won't pick up – he's always expecting someone more important to ring. Where your best friends think nothing of cancelling at the last minute, ten times in a row. Where commitment is a 'pencilled option on mutual time'. Where flexibility is the new etiquette that disguises plain rudeness. And success at work is everything. So it's more than a little inconvenient when Jo falls for a gorgeous singer, an upperclass dropout with an unreasonable attachment to old-fashioned, human values. What is she thinking of, and how on earth will she explain him to her friends? In Daisy Waugh's sparkling satirical novel two worlds collide in a delightfully and hilariously messy fashion – but will true love prevail?
Categories: Action & Adventure
About the Author
Most recently Daisy Waugh has published three comic novels. #In the Crypt with a Candlestick# and #Phone for the Fish Knives# are both comic murder-mysteries set at crumbling Tode Hall (the seventh most recognisable, privately-owned stately home in Britain). #Guy Woake's Word Diary# is set at Britain's seventh least recognisable university. It's written in the voice of a politically aware first year student who takes offence at almost everything and is determined to change the world. Daisy has also written three historical novels set in early 20th Century USA; a commentary on the madness of modern motherhood #I Don't Know Why She Bothers#, several chick lit novels, and a travelogue about her life as teacher in Northern Kenya #A Small Town in Africa#. She has written weekly columns for several newspapers and magazines including the Sunday Times, the Times, Standpoint, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Express and the Indy. She has previously worked as an agony aunt, and currently doubles up as a Tarot reader. Daisy Waugh's Tarot Detective novels are published under the name EV HARTE - to buy her Tarot Detective Novels please look under EV HARTE. Find out more: daisywaugh.com Or find me on: facebook.com/daisywaughauthor/
