I bought this to read on holiday on a bit of whim not really expecting too much but found myself pleasantly surprised. A lovely read for sitting in the sun or on a rainy day, it kept me chuckling a lot. It is well written, and without spoiling the book provides a great modern insight into dating and all the perils it can include. Great fun to read and includes warm characters you really end up caring and rooting for right the way through. I would re-read it over and over again, if not for the amusing bits then for the brilliant way the author does provide the story from the two points of a view, a nice twist on dating story telling. I love that this book does not ...  Read the complete review

Love...From Both Sides by Nick Spalding. I purchased Love...From Both Sides for my Kindle after seeing it on the Amazon Kindle bestsellers list for 99p (there is also a paperback version for £4.49 currently). It is worth remembering that books on the bestseller list are often just that, best sellers, and not necessarily the best. However for 99p I was quite pleased and entertained. It is a very short book which took me a little over a day to read (in reality probably only a few hours), according to Amazon the paperback is only 143 pages. To make it an even quicker read, the two characters write their version of events either in the form of a blog or a ...  Read the complete review

Love....from both sides is a novel about the trials and tribulations of the dating game from the point of view of two central characters, Jamie Newman and Laura Mcintyre, who have both been single for too long. The narrative alternates between Jamie's account, which is in the form of a blog, and Laura's account, which takes the form of a diary. This gives the reader the opportunity to contrast the male and female perspectives on dating and to see where the sexes differ and where they are in fact very similar. For the first part of the book, Jamie and Laura recount separate experiences but, as the story develops, the couple's lives become romantically intertwined and so ..  Read the complete review