DINNER FOR TWO. [Paperback]

Mike. Gayle (Author)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Hodder (2007)
• ASIN: B001UTJWVS
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars lighthearted relationship drama, July 30, 2004

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This review is from: Dinner for Two (Paperback)

In London, thirty-one years old Dave Harding is a music journalist for Louder magazine, a publication that boasts that its audience is "people who live for music" while his beloved wife Izzy works at Femme Magazine. He likes his work there so is a bit taken back when the magazine folds.

Through a friend Jenny, Izzy gets Dave a job as an agony aunt at Teen Scene. Dave provides relationship and other advice to mostly adolescent girls. Leery when he first started because he took himself seriously as a music critic, Dave soon realizes he is enjoying the advice column. However, as Izzy recovers from a miscarriage, Dave believes his biological clock is running down and needs a baby to feel fulfilled. Everything changes when thirteen-year-old Nicola sends him a letter at teen Scene insisting that he is not her agony uncle, but her biological father. He quickly believes she is right, but agonizes how to tell Izzy still healing from her miscarriage as he is terrified by how the woman who he loves with all his heart will react.

This lighthearted relationship drama stars a sensitive male who loves his wife so much that everyone knows it. Dave's need not to hurt the already battered Izzy actually leads to mistrust and doubt as his good intentions towards his spouse and his newly discovered teenage child backfires until the ladies come to the rescue. Mike Gayle furbishes a fine tale starring characters readers will cherish especially fumbling nurturing and loving Dave.

Harriet Klausner

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great read, May 14, 2004

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This review is from: Dinner for Two (Paperback)

Light, sweet, a dash of humour and a great read on a man's view of the world. A must!

4.0 out of 5 stars Cute not Corny and Meaningful not Preachy!, May 11, 2010

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Yvonne - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dinner for Two (Paperback)

Dave Harding is a British magazine music journalist. He is married to Izzy and they are beginning to think about kids when Izzy gets pregnant - then miscarries. She closes down and then Dave loses his job and he starts work as an "angry uncle" for a teen magazine. Nicola sees his picture and realizes he is her father and contacts him. Thus begins the dilemma of whether and how to tell Izzy about Nicola and what it all means for the rest of each of their lives. And, don't forget, he must keep dishing out advice to the teen girls along the way.

It's nice to see a book like this written by a male author and from a male's perspective in the actual text. Although seemingly hard to believe Nicola could find Dave this way, the topic is handled really well - without being mushy or preachy. The sub-plots about friends are under-developed, making you wonder why they are in there other than to fill spacebut, I guess the couple has to do something outside of being together.