Happily Ever After (Harriet Evans)

      
  It was a okay book. I liked it  enough to keep reading but it seemed to drag on in some parts. Happily Ever After is about a girl Elle who is wondering about life and how things work out the way they do. Specifically with love. Her parents divorced and she immersed herself in the kind of thinking that comes with losing yourself in piles of romance books. The fairytale ending is just that: a fairytale. 

  What I liked most about the book was that Elle was in publishing. I love books about books and Harriet Evans seems to know her stuff when it comes the publishing world.  

  The underlying story has to do with drinking and how her mother was a drunk and she was in denial about it. Elle's brother and father seem to have nothing good to say about her mother and she's always defending her. And drinking herself.  Elle comes to terms with her own drinking and deals with losing her mother and it all comes to a head kind of rather neatly that was annoying.  Also, the book, like a lot of other 'brit lit" books refers to Bridget Jones. I love BJ but the references to her and the very likeness of the Girl about Town and "shagging" her boss etc. is tiresome. 

  But overall it was okay. I loved the quotes from the books splitting up the sections and think that Evans is worth another read so i'll try one of her others.