Dot.Homme - Jane Moore

Looking for something to tide me over during a long coach journey recently, I picked up this chick-lit novel by Sun columnist Jane Moore. I wanted something easy and trashy to read that I could dip in and out of, and it did the job, but it also left me with the kind of feelings of regret and disgust you get after eating a whole box of mediocre chocolates. The plot is as follows: we meet Jess Monroe as she celebrates her 34th birthday with her nearest and dearest in a London restaurant. Though she professes to be pretty happy, she is frustrated with many aspects of her life: her soulless job as a producer for a rubbishy daytime TV show, her interfering ...  Read the complete review

Jess Monroe is a 34 year old singleton. She’s fairly happy being alone but, alas, her friends do not share her opinion. So as a birthday ‘treat’ they buy her an advertisement on an internet dating site. Not at all happy with her gift, she is at first angry at the intrusion into her personal life but eventually relents and agrees to give it a try. Unfortunately the men she meets appear to be a little ‘economical with the truth’ – whether it be the fact that they are married or the fact that the photo they submitted on the site is 20 years old! So begins the task of meeting Mr Right. From the one who escapes through the kitchens of a well known Covent ...  Read the complete review

The author of this book, Jane Moore, is a columnist with the sun, and often pops up on TV shows. I don’t regularly buy newspapers, so I don’t read her column, but whenever she appears on TV I find her intensely annoying, so I wouldn’t have chosen to buy a book by her, but this one came free with an issue of Cosmo, and I thought I’d give it a go. ~The Plot~ The story centres around Jess Monroe, a single 34-year-old woman working behind the scenes on a daytime TV show. After a string of hopeless relationships Jess has decided that she is happy single, until her bitchy ‘friend’ Kara decides to buy her an ad on an Internet dating site for her 34th ...  Read the complete review

The story is about a single 34 year old woman named Jess Monroe, working behind the scenes on a daytime TV show. After a run of hopeless relationships Jess has decided that she is happy single, until her friend Kara decides to buy her an ad on an Internet dating site for her 34th birthday. Jess at first is annoyed and embarrassed, but after thinking about it for a while she decides to give it a go. The story continues with her having a string of predictably disastrous dates, with all sorts of strange men – most of which have not told her the truth. maybe sending Jess a photo that was taken 10 years ago or maybe not telling her the fact that they are actually ...  Read the complete review