Sunday, December 28, 2014

Seeing Other People by Mike Gayle

So there's this English bloke who wakes up after what he thinks is a late night mugging. He wakes up in the bedroom of an intern he works with. Oh no! Thus ensuing an unraveling of conscience and trust and upon confession, his marriage. Joe Clarke has made a mistake and now he must deal with the consequences. But early on the reader is treated to a Christmas Carol type of story where the ghost of Joe's first girlfriend, a horrendous being who is haunting him and also showing that his life isn't what he thinks it is and how even though he may or may not have committed an act of betrayal his thinking of it, and letting his ego be stroked in a hurtful way could be just as bad. Joe has learned what it's like to make a sacrifice and how it affects not only him but his wife and two children. The story was good, I generally don't go for the surreal mixed in but I do love Mike Gayles 'chicky-lit' novels. This one wasn't as serious as it seems, with the content of the story, it was all Gayle all the way. I was glad to have gotten the book and if you're a fan this one is a keeper.

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