On one side of a North London suburban street lives 35-year-old Leah, who is having boyfriend trouble. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. by Lisa Jewell RELEASE DATE: MaRomance and real estate combine in the latest from British novelist Jewell ( Vince and Joy, 2006, etc.). (Mar.)Ĭopyright © 1997-2008 Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Roommates Wanted Audible Audiobook Unabridged Lisa Jewell (Author), Helen Duff (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher) & 0 more 4. Jewell (Vince and Joy) has a sure hand with the lightly humorous and romantic, and she delivers the goods: an eccentric cast, lively banter and plenty of warmhearted cheer. When Toby discovers that Gus has willed him a sickly cat and a pile of pounds with the provision that Toby use the money to make his life everything it could be, it provides the impetus for a shakeup at Toby's that sends the cast in different directions as they each find ways to grow up. Since then she has written another nineteen novels, most recently a number of dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls, Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs and The Night She Disappeared, all of which were Richard. And then there's longtime tenant Gus, whom Leah finds dead on the front walk one day. What a great book Lisa Jewell has written a brilliant tale about a guy who is finding out that he has just let life pass him by, and wants to change that. Her first novel, Ralph's Party, was the best- selling debut novel of 1999. There's a cabaret singer who depends on sugar daddies to keep afloat a mailroom clerk who shares a room with his mother and a stylish recluse. Leah, a shopgirl whose live-in boyfriend flees when she mentions marriage, lives across the street from Toby, a struggling poet who lets out rooms in his bedraggled Victorian house to ragtag tenants who pay rent when they remember and clutter up his otherwise solitary life.

Jewell's boisterous sixth novel is a compulsively readable jaunt through the lives of a handful of suburban London misfits. Roommates Wanted: Until You Fall in Love…Ģ008 Lisa Jewell.

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