I Never Fancied Him Anyway [Paperback]

Claudia Carroll (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 22, 2009

Cassandra can see the future with 100% accuracy . . . for everybody except herself.

Ever since Cassandra was a little girl, she's had a remarkable psychic gift. Now a successful columnist for a weekly magazine, she predicts the future with uncanny precision. And thanks to her stunning co-worker Charlene—and the latest love of Charlene's life, hot television producer Jack—Cassandra's moving up . . . to daytime TV!

The trouble is, whenever Jack's around, the hapless seer's second sight goes dim—something that always seems to happen when a desirable single male is around. But despite a truly abysmal dating record, she believes Jack is the one for her . . . though Charlene might strongly disagree. Is true love or outrageous catastrophe right around the corner? Cassandra doesn't have a clue. But it seems even being able to foretell the future can't protect her from what destiny has in store . . . and sometimes fate won't allow you to look before you love.

Delightfully warm, odd, and unforgettable, Claudia Carroll's I Never Fancied Him Anyway is a quirky and hilarious story of seeing . . . and believing.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Cassandra, a Dublin magazine columnist, has three best friends and an unlucky love life, a familiar setup that author Carroll (Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man) shakes up with a whimsical device: her likable, humorous chick lit narrator is psychic—but no believer in the occult. Cassie's involuntary flashes, as she calls them, usually involve the love lives of strangers, but when she catches a glimpse of her own romantic future, Cassie's mystified to discover that her fabulously wealthy best friend Charlene is dating the man of her visions. Caught among fate, friendship and the rare possibility of fulfilling romance, Cassie struggles mightily with her desire and guilt, though readers will find the choice between unsympathetic Charlene—a disagreeable comic misfire—and dream guy a no-brainer. Carroll gives Cassie enough wit and charm to make up for a hackneyed media world setting and grating details—egregious puns (a black belt in tongue-fu), Manolo Blahniks, evil bosses—making this an exercise in pure (if predictable) chick lit fun. (Oct.)
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About the Author

Claudia Carroll is the author of Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man and I Never Fancied Him Anyway, which have been optioned for a Fox television series and a film, respectively. She lives in Dublin.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (September 22, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061734772
• ISBN-13: 978-0061734779
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,668,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Claudia was born in Dublin, where she still lives and writes full-time. The only job she reckons, where you can stay in your manky track suit all day, look out the window and still get paid. However, even on the bad days when she honestly feels like flinging the computer up against a wall, she still considers this by a mile, The Best Job Ever.

WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW was Claudia's eight novel, published in August 2011 and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her latest book, A VERY ACCIDENTAL LOVE AFFAIR, is due to be published in July, 2012. She describes it as a retelling of the classic Pygmalion/My Fair Lady story, but with a modern twist. (Hint; it's gender reversed, with the heroine acting as Henry Higgins...) And she's only praying you'll all like it!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Psychic chick lit, October 1, 2009

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Little D (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Never Fancied Him Anyway (Paperback)

Overall I really enjoyed this story. It was a unique idea. What I didnt like was how long it was. There was some things that didnt need to be there to get the point of the story across. It made me want to skip over those things, but I didnt. I was expecting more or a romantic comedy. This book delivers the comedy but not the romance that I was hoping for between the main character Cassy and Jake.

4.0 out of 5 stars What's in the cards?, August 7, 2011

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Book Lover from GA (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Never Fancied Him Anyway (Paperback)

I loved how easy this book was to read. Cassandra is definitely not what I picture in my head whenever I hear the term seer or psychic. And I loved how she was worried about the feelings of her friends and the people who called or wrote in with their problems. There were parts of the book that brought tears to my eyes and others where I wanted to laugh out loud or hot someone on the back of their head for missing the obvious.

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!, July 19, 2011

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Jessjoy - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Never Fancied Him Anyway (Kindle Edition)

I am so extremely picky when it comes to books! I will go to the library and check about ten books out and out of those ten I will actually only be able to HOPEFULLY read one! I was so thrilled to actually make it past the first chapter and wasn't able to put it down! Carroll writes brilliantly and I love the slang used (for us Americans it's adorable). Since reading British and Irish lit. I have consistently had to use my dictionary. They seem to use much more of our language than we do! If you have read Jill mansell or Katie Fforde you will love this light humor read! If you haven't, then get this, then find mansell and Fforde!