Book News: All the Hopeful Lovers by William Nicholson

Posted By Chloe on August 24th, 2010

This isn’t a book that I would have especially picked out to feature on the site, but I was sent a copy to review by the publishers and it really caught my eye… it’s chick lit by a man! The press release describes the author William Nicholson as following in the footsteps of Marian Keyes and the like, so I am curious to read it and see if that claim is true! It’s out on 2nd September, and is the second in a trilogy of books, although they are apparently stand alone books too. Here’s the synopsis:

“Belinda, just fifty, wistfully reflects how much better she is at sex now than when she was young and gorgeous, and then discovers to her fury that her husband Tom is having an affair. All the Hopeful Lovers tracks the emotional rollercoaster she lives through over the seven days following her discovery. At the same time we learn what’s going on inside the mind of Tom and of his lover Meg. Weaving through this web of middle-aged lovers is a tangle of teenage ones, as Belinda’s flirty daughter Chloe tries to set up Jack with shy Alice, without realising that Jack is full of secret longings for her. These personal dramas are unfolding in December in the tense run-up to Christmas: our own familiar world, rendered pacy, funny and emotionally on the button. Every reader will find a character here who is trying to love as they have loved, and is making a mess of it as they have.”