Front Page Fridays Week-45
Front Page Fridays Week-45
Welcome to Front Page Fridays Week-45. On Fridays I showcase the first page of a new book.
My Front Page Fridays Week-45 guest is Bella Osborne with the first page of her brand-new romantic comedy, Not Quite Done With Dating.
Here’s the opening:
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Nora looked around the odd little back-street restaurant where they’d arranged to meet. It was like all the people she had ever swiped to the right were in one room.
‘Deliveroo collections, that side,’ said one of the waiting staff, scanning Nora briefly. Harsh. Nora whipped off her turquoise waterproof jacket. It was mid-May and there had been a 70 per cent chance of rain when she’d left the house and statistics were rarely wrong. Thankfully another member of staff appeared and showed her to her table.
Despite the data to the contrary, here she was giving dating another go. The odds of Nora finding someone she wanted to spend her forever with were already slim at best; she knew because she’d crunched the numbers. Perhaps Nora’s standards were set too high. However, there was still a chance and Nora had always loved a challenge, which was good, given that her date had just arrived wearing a trilby, cravat, shiny waistcoat and red trousers. She’d seen salads better dressed than him.
About Not Quite Done With Dating
One bad date too many calls for desperate measures . . .
Nora is well and truly fed up. After more painfully bad dates than she can count, she’s had enough of leaving it to fate to find her perfect match – but she's not quite ready to give up on her love life just yet.
As a statistician, Nora trusts numbers more than her gut, so when she finds a formula that could help her conquer the dating game, she has to give it a go.
Putting her love theory to the test takes Nora to some questionable places with some even more questionable men, but she won't be deterred – she knows that 'the one' must be out there, somewhere. Even if he's the last person she'd have expected. . .
Purchase link
Signed paperbacks from Kenilworth Books - https://www.kenilworthbooks.co.uk/product/not-quite-done-with-dating-by-bella-osborne-signed-copy/
Ebook link - https://mybook.to/NotQuite
About Bella Osborne
Bella has been jotting down stories for as long as she can remember and her first novel hit the shelves in 2015. Since then, she has written many bestselling and widely translated novels filled with heart, humour, and characters who, like most of us, are just trying to cope with what life throws at them. In 2022, she was thrilled to win the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award. She secretly wants to keep her readers up late at night reading just one more chapter.
Bella lives in Warwickshire, UK with her husband, daughter and rescue cat where her garden is home to many rehabilitated hedgehogs and one particularly cheeky squirrel. She loves planning with sticky notes, researching biscuits and listening to music in a bath that’s only slightly cooler than the sun.
Bella’s Social Media Links
For more about Bella, visit her website at www.bellaosborne.com or follow her on social media @bellaosborneauthor
Other Books by Bella Osborne
Please follow the link to Bella’s Amazon author page for other titles -https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Bella-Osborne/author/B00Q1EPB8U
I hope you enjoyed reading Front Page Fridays Week-45. Please come back next time when I’ll be featuring a different author and the first page of their book.
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