Publishing year: 2010
This story starts with George Bachelor, who is 68, ready to start watching the beginning of a film, but his wife Joan keeps interrupting.
She is concerned about their three children, as none of them are married, and she wonders if they – George and herself – have done all right with them. Joan retells what her husband already knows: their eldest son Adam never brings a girl to meet them and when she mentions the fact, he just rolls his eyes. Their middle son Luke is in a relationship with Cassey, but so far there hasn’t been any talk about wedding plans. And the youngest one, Russell, only brings her friend Cassey to the family home, and Cassey already has a boyfriend.
The focus then turn to the three brothers, and we learn more about them. Adam is at a friend’s wedding with all his closest friends, and when they start wondering who will be the next one to get hitched, and he gets a bit offended when his name is not mentioned in the possibilities. Then his friends tell him that he doesn’t have a girlfriend, and his problem is that the girls he dates are not girlfriend material, and this makes him think that he has to change.
Lucas and Cassey are celebrating their eighteenth month together, and it is during the celebration that Lucas asks her to marry him, and she promptly agrees. This is something that will please his mother, Joan, but it will create more problems, especially with Russell, his young brother. In the chapter about Russell, he and Angie are in his flat together. Angie is unloading her soul, telling him that he has split up with her boyfriend. I thought that Angie could be the woman for Russell, but we learn that when they met, Russell liked her a lot, but she was already in a relationship, and when once they were both single, they tried to go on a date, but it was too awkward for the two of them, so now they are simply mates. Besides, Russell is in love with someone else, and here is where the problem arises as the woman he is in love with is his brother’s girlfriend, Cassey.
Very interesting start. I like Mike Gayle’s novels, and I know that I am going to enjoy this one as well.
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