Rebecca Fine is just not having a good day -- or for that
matter a good year if you hear her tell it. Her love life is
on hold, her career isn't challenging and her friends and
family are driving her crazy. Rebecca seems to be on a
collision course with life in general. Even when mister
gorgeous, too good to be true, comes into the picture in the
person of Max Stoddart Rebecca is still bombarded with one
disaster after another. Nothing life threatening but totally
life embarrassing -- put a paper bag over your head --
embarrassing. The question keeps popping into your mind --
how does she always seem to be in the wrong place at the
wrong time and how does a seemingly intelligent, well
educated woman get so disheveled at all the most inopportune
moments. In short if something weird is about to happen to
someone then that someone is Rebecca. Luckily she has a
remarkable sense of humor albeit self deprecating but we are
talking about a laugh out loud British comic streak. She
comes by it rather naturally as we get to know her family,
in particular her grandmother Rose. Rose is a typical Jewish
grandmother with a slightly odd trait of taking information
too literally. Her reference to a friend with a colostomy
bag as Semi Colon is a perfect example. Rose is determined
to see Rebecca happily married and every now and again plays
match maker with usually unfortunate results. And then
there's Lipstick who is engaged to Rebecca's dad Stan. I'm
not even going to start on that one.
Sue Margolis has taken a little story about a woman's search
for love, career and happiness and turned it into a series
of one-liners - British one-liners to boot. If you didn't
think the Brits have a sense of humor or comic timing then
you have to read this book. The main character, Rebecca
Fine, is a walking example of Murphy's Law and you will find
yourself thinking or perhaps saying out loud -- Oh No not
again. Great fun. Enjoy.
When it comes to men, beauty columnist Rebecca Fine always
seems to be on the scruffy end of the mascara wand. But all
that changes the morning she meets Max Stoddart, her new
colleague at the Daily Vanguard. With his upscale suit, Hugh
Grant hair, and obscenely sexy good looks, he’s a single
woman’s dream come true. Finally, her grandmother can stop
surfing the Net for eligible Jewish males. But is Max the
catch of the decade---or just a major babe magnet?
Meanwhile, Rebecca’s old high school nemesis has resurfaced,
a former blond bombshell called Lipstick who is now engaged
to Rebecca’s widowed dad. And it’s good-bye to articles on
toe cleavage when a hot tip sweeps Rebecca to the center of
the Paris cosmetics world, where a miracle anti-wrinkle
cream is about to be launched. That is, until she blows the
whistle on a scandal that could set the beauty
business---and the future of world peace---reeling. Will
Rebecca win the recognition---not to mention the
Pulitzer---she yearns for...and get the man of her dreams?
Stay tuned.
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