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BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR

Her
Title: Her
Description:
On the Delta shuttle between New York and Washington, Rachel finds herself sitting next to Donald - six foot six, with dark wavy hair, a big easy smile. And no wife. No kids. Just a dog and an ex-girlfriend, ex-fiancee actually, called Adrienne. Adrienne granted Donald full custody of the dog. It was an amicable separation. They were still in touch... For Rachel the ex is like the Chinese water torture. Drip by drip Adrienne is driving her into a state of frenzied insecurity - particularly as Rachel's April wedding date to Donald is almost upon her.
Her
Title: Her
Description:
In a chance encounter, Elise meets tall, handsome Donald. He seems to be the perfect man except for an ex-girlfriend called Adrienne with whom he remains good friends. For Elise, the ex becomes like Chinese water torture. Drop by drop, Adrienne is sending her into a frenzy of insecurity
Animal Husbandry
Title: Animal Husbandry
Description:
Meet Jane Goodall--though not the scientist who has so beautifully revealed that apes have as much capacity for love and tragedy as do their human relatives. Jane Goodall, the 30-year-old narrator of Laura Zigman's fresh and funny first novel, has a revelation of her own: that the human male has as much capacity for love and constancy as an animal with rather distant DNA--the bull. Her discovery is the result of a botched relationship with a fellow PBS executive, the charming but increasingly evasive Ray Brown. Ray doesn't so much leave Jane as slip away, leaving her in depressed confusion and him having it both ways. Jane's bitter but hilarious revelation eventually transforms her from a fast-talking talk-show booker with a giant Rolodex (and an endless fund of excuses for failing to reach Kevin Costner) by day into "Dr Marie Goodall, delusional fraudulent obsessive monkey scientist by night". In one of Animal Husbandry's many delightful (and clever) twists, the false Dr Goodall achieves a high profile and a New York Times rebuff once her article is published in Men's Times. Zigman has clearly spent some time researching human mating behaviour, which her heroine is forced to see as a dance of male deception and female hope. If one occasionally wonders whether Animal Husbandry has its origins in revenge, no matter. It's an artful, sparky one.
Her
Title: Her
Description:
Romance
Dating Big Bird
Title: Dating Big Bird
Description:
Ellen Franck and Marian Abrams are smart, attractive, urban women, with big jobs in the fashion business. They have witnessed their contemporaries following the route of marriage, children, exile to suburbia, and a general loveless, sexless existence. But now Ellen and Marian discover that they both hear the same, terrible noise. It is the ticking of the biological clock.