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Chastened: My Modern Adventure in Old-Fashioned Romance
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Like most women, Hephzibah wants to find love. But she has just turned thirty and she’s single- again. Looking back on her twenties, the years seem a blur of parties and flings. Being footloose and fancy free was supposed to be fun, but somehow it kept ending in tears. Now she wonders- where was the romance?This is a story about rediscovering romance. Forget the fly-by-night cads and unreturned calls, Hephzibah decides. Bring on old-fasioned flirting and the art of courtship. So, she takes a year off sex to find love.She sips cocktails in Manhattan with a dark-eyed musician, and encounters unexpected temptation back in London. Her quest has life-changing consequences when, after all, she discovers romance is still alive and well.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.211 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.9 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 304 |
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| Year Published | 2010-2-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099532158 |
| About The Author | Hephzibah Anderson graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in English Literature and has worked as a journalist ever since. She was Fiction Editor at the Daily Mail until 2007, and wrote on debut fiction for the Observer for five years. She now works freelance as a critic, feature writer and broadcaster for various British and international outlets including Vogue, Bloomberg Muse, and BBC Radio Five Live. |
This memoir of notches not carved is surprisingly readable, displaying a melancholy tenderness and candid self-awareness rarely found in confessional writing … Chastened feels like a genuine attempt to find a solution to a loveless life, and articulates the thoughts of many single women with a purposeful freshness |
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| Other text | Her book is tender, clever, heartbreaking and funny … every single woman and man should read it before even thinking of going on a date again |
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