Adult romance, as by Jaye Carroll

Andi wants to be a stand-up comic but in the meantime she's got to hang on to the day job down at the pound shop.

It's not exactly showbiz, but it helps to have a sense of humour when you're trying to sell badly-painted ornamental cats and bright blue toilet brushes.

Her love live is a bit of a joke too, but it could be a lot better if only Dean, her best friend Ellen's twin brother, would just get the hint. "I think we should just be friends," Andi told him. But it has been a year and a half and he still expects them to get back together.

When Andi bumps into Tony, and up-and-coming comedian who just happens to be good-looking, they hit it off immediately and now he wants her to write some material for him. Andi's sure that this will take her a step closer to her dream of becoming a comedian herself.

But the road to stardom is not going to be easy, especially if her disapproving mother and paranoid and panicky older sister have anything say in it.

 

Ireland: Poolbeg, June 2002

Poland: as Gwiazda Estrady

 

"filled with laughs for the reader"
- Woman's Way

"such a captivating, feel-good story that you want to go on reading"
- Mayo News

"Jaye Carroll throws everything into the mix to create a tale that gives some highly entertaining insights into relationships... you'll love this"
- Sunday World