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'A charming - and sharp - love story about what it means to fall for someone who is your polar opposite' Sunday Telegraph
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Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency…

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1 author picked Just Like You as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This was the second time I've read this book. I love the very contemporary setting - although, going back to 2016, so much has happened it's also like a history book. Set around the time of the UK Brexit referendum, and before Donald Trump was elected, and of course a few years before Covid, it's interesting reading this book a few years later, knowing what we know now.

But like all of Nick Hornby's books it's funny, with a very good and real-feeling storyline and insight into the main characters and the other people in their world and community.…

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A compulsive overachiever, Madeline lives by the credo that easy is synonymous with mediocre—which is why, at forty-nine, she’s a senior vice president at a…

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