Single In The City
What happens when you take one 26 year old American, add to one 2,000 year old city with a big dose of culture clash and stir? Hannah Cumming and the population of London are about to find out.
It’s official. Hannah has left everyone behind to follow her dream of living abroad. Unfortunately she's completely unprepared for what’s in store.
Some dream!
As a single girl in a new city, she has high hopes for a prince or Hugh Grant-type. Surely she won’t have to settle for her half-naked Australian housemate or an "English gentleman" with terrible hygiene habits?
Her job prospects are little better. She’d love something fantastic in fashion. So how has she ended up being the mini-me for an evil party planner who doesn’t even trust her to arrange the paperclips?
And how is she supposed to make friends when she realizes she doesn’t even speak the same language?
Maybe she was a bit hasty in this life change, not that a complete lack of forethought ever stopped her before. Was she mad to move 3,000 miles away from everyone she knows? Will she ever find love, happiness and her perfect life in England?
What we think
Michele Gorman is a hugely talented writer and that is almost certainly what makes this book as enjoyable as it is. Single In The City is an easy read that keeps you enthralled as Hannah strives to make her life better after making a rash and impulsive move to up sticks and relocate to a place full of strangers. - Excellent read - Joclyn Manners FemaleFirst literature Critic
The Author:
Michele studied accounting at university but never got the hang of debits and credits, to the dismay of several managers. Fortunately she realized early on that while her fondness for storytelling didn't foster confidence in her colleagues, it did prepare her for a life writing fiction. She was born and raised in the US but did indeed know where Scousers came from when asked on the Britishness test and is now a card carrying Brit. Today she lives happily in central London, knows the words to God Save the Queen and has developed a taste for tuna with corn mixed in (though she still hates Marmite).