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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