Mr. Commitment - Softcover

Gayle, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340718269 ISBN 13: 9780340718261

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000

Synopsis

Duffy is engaged. He accepted Mel's proposal. But the trips to Ikea, dinner parties for couples and talk of babies are giving him itchy feet and now he's not sure if he can say goodbye to his extended adolescence and face up to that final walk down the aisle. How does he know if she's The One? Can he cope with responsibility? Does he have what it takes to become Mr Commitment? Because if he doesn't, he may just find that he's lost Mel - forever...

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Straight from the bestseller lists in the UK comes a novel "full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations" (The Independent on Sunday), an excursion into the world of a modern male that "delivers its punch lines directly to the heart" (Birmingham Evening Mail). Like Helen Fielding's smash success Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's classic High Fidelity , Mr. Commitment promises to make a big splash this side of the Atlantic as well.

Benjamin Duffy is a stand-up comic/temp who, like many men in their late twenties, is forced to face the eternal question: "To commit or not to commit?" After four years of biding her time, Benjamin's girlfriend has proposed, issuing an ultimatum that sets Benjamin's head spinning. He knows that Mel's the one for him, but should he swap his stellar record collection and fridge full of beer for dinner parties and trips to IKEA? Maybe if Benjamin could swap "till death do us part" with "renewable on a four-year basis" he'd be happy, but the choice-as far as Mel sees it-is all or nothing. Now or never. Mel or no Mel.

So after a lifetime as Mr. Irresponsible, does Benjamin have what it takes to become Mr. Commitment?

From the Back Cover:

“Mr. Commitment succeeds brilliantly, tackling the topic of relationships with the seriousness and dark wit of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity.” –USA Today

“Mike Gayle has penned a winner. Mr. Commitment is a joyful romp through modern romance...Lively, funny, and unabashedly hopeful, it’s a gentle reminder that love isn’t a spectator sport. It’s best played by equals.” –New York Post

“Mr. Commitment mines the same vein as Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity and finds just as much comic gold. Bottom line: Gayles of laughter.” –People

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0340718269
• ISBN 13: 9780340718261
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336