Old Maid
She gets engaged and panics, and narrates the whole thing in a voice dry enough to quote aloud.
Published in America as Otherwise Engaged. Eve gets engaged and immediately begins to panic, and Finnamore gives her a voice so dry and so quotable that readers start reading passages aloud to each other. The satire takes in marriage, advertising and the whole apparatus of being a woman expected to want this. Caustic in the specific way that only works when the writer is fond of her subject.
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Sophie Kinsella
Published as Otherwise Engaged in the States, this is one of the most caustic, true books I have ever read – the kind you immediately start quoting at your friends. It follows the story of Eve after her engagement and subsequent panic – the joy of the book is in her relentlessly witty, dry-as-a-bone take on marriage, advertising and life.
Interview · August 2010
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