Summer in the City - Softcover

Sisman, Robyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143051237 ISBN 13: 9780143051237

Publisher: Penguin Canada, 2005

Synopsis

An irresistibly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and achingly true novel from bestselling chick-lit author Robyn Sisman

Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met?

Suze Wilding and Lloyd Rockwell are perfect strangers. She lives in London; he lives in New York. They know nothing about each other—until one summer they exchange jobs and homes.

Suze is impetuous, impatient, and NEVER wants to get married. Lloyd is complicated, cautious, and contemplating marriage to the eminently suitable Betsy. But when Suze discovers a plot at work to get rid of Lloyd, the two begin communicating long-distance—and they wonder what might happen if they ever met face to face...

About this title

About the Author:

Robyn Sisman was a publisher and the author of six novels. She launched the career of the enormously successful novelist Robert Harris as the editor of his first novel Fatherland. Sisman then turned to writing, and her own debut, Special Relationship, was published in 1995. Her other works include Just Friends, Summer in the City, Weekend in Paris, Perfect Strangers, and A Hollywood Ending. She died in 2016.

From Publishers Weekly:

Originally published in the U.K. in a slightly different form and with the title Perfect Strangers (1998), this spirited story by the author of the bestselling Weekend in Paris features a romance that blossoms thanks to a transatlantic apartment swap. Londoner Suze Wilding swears she'll never get married; New Yorker Lloyd Rockwell has the perfect girlfriend. They both work for the ad agency Scheider Fox, but Suze is a bit low on the totem pole on the U.K. side and Lloyd's sort of a hotshot in Manhattan. What will bring them together? How about a month-long job exchange that also has them living on each other's turf? Everything's going swimmingly until golden boy Lloyd gets accused of leaking confidential company information and is fired, and Suze's love life implodes. The two start talking on the phone, and they decide to clear Lloyd's name. There's never any doubt that they will—and that they'll find love along the way—but Sisman offers plenty of twists and turns, and both surprisingly sad and wickedly funny scenes along the way. (Mar.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143051237
• ISBN 13: 9780143051237
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320