Seeing Other People- Mike Gayle- women's fiction
Joe is happily married to Penny and they have two small children. Joe works as a
journalist at a newspaper and has sadly been passed over for promotion-
something their finances could have done with. Joe is chatting to an intern who
is very taken with his book- his one and only story so he says. He wakes up to
find himself in bed with Bella, and only hazily remembering being mugged , he
thought for his phone. He is mortified and legs it. Six months later Bella has
moved on and a new intern has arrived. When Penny takes Joe out for lunch to
have some together time, he is mortified to bump into Bella. After the incident
he has been getting terrible nightmares which he put down to stress and
overwork, only now are they beginning to ease. Joe is seeing his dead ex-girlfriend
who is “helping” him through this. Joe wonders if he has lost the plot but does
take some of Fiona's advice, after all he has few others to talk to about it.
This is a different read from the other Mike Gayle books I have read- a least to
begin with. Then there comes that warmth and reassurance that somehow
radiates from the pages.We don’t always get what we dream of- which can be
a good thing even if we don’t necessarily think it at the time.. One life- live it
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