The Good Guy's Guide To Getting The Girl
“Liz. Where do I start? I suppose the end is as good a place as any.”
Boxing Day, 1997: Jason Smith, 29, and self-confessed ‘good guy’, is single again. And now that he is, it seems all the single girls – the 'Melanie Jacksons' of this world – are in short supply. Or are they? Has Jason stumbled on a foolproof way to find the girl of his dreams?
Both aided and hindered by his beer-drinking best buddy and reluctant father-to-be Alex, and his ever-wise, ever-sarcastic colleague Sian, 'The Good Guy’s Guide to Getting The Girl' follows Jason on a voyage of self-discovery as he experiences the highs and lows of trying to meet one’s soul mate at the turn of the millennium.
Opening Chapter Excerpt
Liz. Where do I start? I suppose the end is as good a place as any.
Despite that dreadful first date – sitting in a near empty pub, trying to conjure sparks of conversation out of the void between us – I clung to the possibility that behind that cold, hard exterior was a warm heart, a sensitive soul, and someone whose yin was a close match to my less than melodic yang.
I was wrong, of course.
Liz was not the girl I’d hoped she would be. Any fantasies I’d had of ‘romantic happy ever afters’ soon gave way to a cast-iron certainty that I never, ever, wanted to see this girl ever again. And three years later I finally got around to telling her.
On Christmas Day.
Yesterday.
Right after she’d proposed marriage...