With her first two irresistible novels, Anna Maxted won the hearts of readers everywhere. Now, in Behaving Like Adults, she introduces us to twenty-nine-year -old. Meet Holly, the sunny twenty-nine-year-old owner of Girl Meets Boy, a dating service for those who are “beautiful inside and out.” Though she’s. Brimming with warmth, perception and understanding, Anna Maxted once again mixes the heart-breaking with the humorous to deliver a.

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The heavy subject aside: His adoptive parents are all upset. Because the cover jumped out at me. It’s been done before, and definitely done better.
Behaving Like Adults by Anna Maxted
How can she orchestrate the romances of others with her own heart so battered and bruised? I grabbed it for some light, humorous reading, a chick-lit book that I could just drown myself in but I love the way it was done. So when her friends dare her to pick a man off the top of the pile, she’s game. It was frustrating to read about her choosing to keep the rape a secret. However, I f Fortunately, I was pre-warned that this book was about a date-rape, and that’s why I read it.
Please provide an email address. Still worth picking up if you like chick lit. Holly ljke to disconnect from her life and becomes extremely irresponsible after the assault. Paperbackpages. Overall rating No ratings yet 0. She feels violated yet ashamed of what had occurred to her. I thought annw emergency services number there was or something like that.
The review must be at least 50 characters long. The pace was slow and meandering. When he fina This book was a little different than i expected it to be It,s set in London. Discover what to read next. The two of them also had chemistry, both in the past and present. Not too long in the book I was laughing out loud and that maxhed not happen to me that behafing so I decided to keep reading.
The book incorporates the heavy subject of rape and it is written very realistically and explored in-depth. What does it mean for her business and her romantic future if she can no longer trust her ability to read people? She annw depressed, makes bad business decisions, fights with her sister Claudia and bewildered friend Rachel and makes the bizarre choice to see Stuart again.
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Maxted’s latest offering is an engaging tale of a woman who rediscovers the joy of behavinf, the bond maxter family and the power of romantic love.

Chick-lit with English wit. The Cloths of Heaven. It brings you closer to death. The heroine of Maxted’s third comic confessional after Running in Heels is year-old Holly, the incurably optimistic founder of a London dating agency called Girl Meets Boy.
Feb 13, Miss Michael rated it liked it Recommends it for: Can a person live with that? Media reporter, reviewer, producer, guest booker, blogger. It’s probably my least favorite, bhaving I still enjoyed it. Or maybe any read. Jun 19, Becca Wolf rated it liked it.
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And sure enough, he’s a caddish jerk and the date is a zdults. She also starts hating on her good from Nige, just because he is a guy. Between family and work drama, as well as a rape and a phantom pregnancy, you would think this book would become intriguing at some point, but it doesn’t.
He was very supportive of Holly throughout the story.
BEHAVING LIKE ADULTS
It suggests you have no sense of irony, and you like Meg Ryan films the traditional sort. Adultw 08, Sarcomical rated it liked it. The heroines in these stories definitely grow as a person, and often do some soul searching along the way. Despite his few appearances, the author successfully portrayed Stuart as the rapist and horrible person he is.

But her struggle with herself to decide if she can apply the R word to what happened to her, and vacillating between thinking it’s her Had to stop reading this book because it was bumming me out.
