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wine-glass-charms2Thanks to Cat Boyd of Viking and Penguin Books, I’m giving away one print copy of ‘Love By the Book’ by Melissa Pimentel and a bag of wine charms.

Love by the bookBook Description:

A hilarious and refreshingly honest foray into modern dating, Age, Sex, Location is Bridget Jones’s Diary for HBO’s Girls generation.

An American living in London, Lauren is intelligent, beautiful and loves to party. So why can’t she convince a man she isn’t after something more serious than scrambled eggs and goodbye in the morning?

Determined to snare some regular male affection, she embarks on a project: each month she will follow the rules of a different dating guide – from refusing to pay the bill to chatting up every man in her path – and will switch seamlessly to the next book at the end of each month.

Lauren’s love life is about to get scientific . .

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About Melissa Pimentel:MP

Melissa Pimentel grew up in a small town in Massachusetts in a house without cable and therefore much of her childhood was spent watching 1970s British comedy on PBS. At twenty-two, she made the move to London to do an MA in Modern Literature at University College London. She has lived there happily for ten years, though she still adamantly refuses to eat a scotch egg.

Before meeting her fiancé, she spent much of her time trawling the London dating scene for clean, non-sociopathic sexual partners and blogging about it, which became the inspiration for her first novel. These days, she spends much of her time reading in the various pubs of Stoke Newington and engaging in a long-standing emotional feud with their disgruntled cat, Welles. She works in publishing.

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ExpectingThanks to Liz Kelsch of Sourcebooks, I am giving away one copy of Expecting.

Book Description:

The debut novel from the Emmy-winning screenwriter of thirtysomething and Grey’s Anatomy, a hilarious, heartfelt exploration of what it means to be a parent

After years of trying, Laurie and Alan are thrilled to find out that they’ll finally be having a baby, until they discover the unthinkable: the doctor has impregnated Laurie with the wrong man’s “donation.” Suddenly, mom and dad and baby make four—all bound together by a fateful mistake.

Alan is reeling, torn about the new child that’s not his. His shock is almost as great as that of Jack, a college junior who suddenly finds out he’s a father. And Laurie is caught in between—thrilled to be a mother, and terrified by the consequences that could tear her marriage apart.

About Ann Lewis Hamilton:

Award winning writer and producer Ann Lewis Hamilton has written for TV and film.  Her TV credits include, among others, “Haven,” “The Dead Zone, “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Saved,” “Providence,” “Party of Five,” and “thirtysomething.”  She was twice nominated for an Emmy award, and was the winner of a WGA Award and the Humanitas Prize.

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Thanks to Caitlin Valenziano of Berkley/NAL, Penguin Group USA, I am giving away one print copy of No One Could Have Guessed the Weather.

Book Description:

After her husband loses his job, Lucy has to leave behind her posh life in London and settle into a tiny East Village apartment. Now she’s a middle-aged mother in the midst of hipsters, homesick and resentful until she embarks on a new love affair—with New York City and three new friends.

Julia has left her family for a mini breakdown and a room of her own. Trophy wife Christy is a bit adrift, as only those who live in penthouses can be. Robyn is constantly compensating for her wunderkind husband who can’t seem to make the transition to adulthood. And all of them are starting to learn that what you want in your twenties isn’t always what you need in your forties…

We asked Anne-Marie Casey:

Since your book is set in New York what are your…

Favorite NY-set books 

Anything by Edith Wharton, but perhaps “Washington Square”. I have a particular fondness for “The Best of Everything” by Rona Jaffe which you may remember Don Draper reading in an episode of “Mad Men”, but for a book about the spirit of New York my favorite classic is “Here is New York” by E B White.

Favorite NY set films

Too many to list, but let’s say “When Harry Met Sally”, of course, “The Sweet Smell of Success” and “Manhattan”.

Favorite NY-set TV Show

I could say “Mad Men” which is almost true, but in fact it’s “Sex and the City”. I associated the final series so much with my younger son being a baby, that I felt bereft when the Paris finale ended!

About Ann-Marie Casey:

 Anne-Marie Casey was a script editor and producer of prime time television drama for ten years before becoming a writer full time. She has written scripts for films and television series in the UK and Ireland and her stage adaptation of ‘Little Women’ enjoyed a sellout run with rave reviews. Her debut novel, ‘No One Could Have Guessed the Weather’ was inspired by her experiences living in Manhattan with her family and her love/love relationship with the city. She is married to the novelist Joseph O’Connor and they now live in Dublin with their two sons.

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