Come Together

Lloyd, Josie; Rees, Emlyn

ISBN 10: 0425176053 / ISBN 13: 9780425176054

Published by Berkley (edition ), 2000

About this Item

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Seller Inventory # 0425176053-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Come Together
• Publisher: Berkley (edition )
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0425176053
• ISBN 13: 9780425176054
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Told from both sides of the gender gap in alternating chapters, a tale of modern romance follows a young woman into the London singles scene in search of true love. Reprint.

Review

He says: "A one-night stand. No complications. Just another chalk mark on the board. A bit of harmless fun." She says: "You have no idea how much I hate being on my own."

They are Jack and Amy, two twentysomething singles living in London, and the central characters in Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees's joint effort, Come Together. Jack is an artist who scrapes out a living by day working part-time in a gallery and prowls the bars by night looking to "pull." Amy is a temp with dreams of becoming a fashion designer. When the two meet at a party, they spend the whole night talking; both enjoy the conversation, but while Amy starts thinking that Jack "could well be my perfect man," his thoughts run along more basic lines--he wants to see her again because "I haven't had sex for over a week and you haven't had sex for over six months. Because, Amy, we therefore have a mutual need. And, yeah, because I fancy you, too."

That last sentiment is important. Though Jack starts out trying to seduce Amy into a casual fling, he ends up falling for her hard. There's only one problem: the little matter of the nude portrait he's doing of Sally McCullen, a drop-dead gorgeous blonde and former obsession. Told in alternating he said-she said chapters, Come Together is fairly predictable plot-wise, but the prose is effortlessly comical, the characters endearing, and the details of dating in the '90s hilariously spot-on. An added frisson of enjoyment comes from the fact that Lloyd and Rees became a couple themselves in the course of writing this novel. --Alix Wilber