Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man - Claudia Carroll

This book tells the story of Amelia, a late-thirties lady in Dublin who enrols to an evening course in a bid to find herself a husband by the end of the year. The course tutor gives the class homework each week which consists of tracking down her ex-boyfriends one at a time, to see if she can learn anything about where she is going wrong in her love-life, and therein begins a series of flashbacks to her dating youth and a brilliantly entertaining tale as she discovers what they are all doiing now. The book is light-hearted and hysterically funny in places; I would highly recommend it as a beach read for your summer holidays - and I was really ...  Read the complete review

Amelia Lockwood is thirty-seven, a successful TV producer and painfully single. At the start of the book, she sees an advert for a course promising that, if she joins, she'll be engaged within a year. That's the start of a series of unfortunate encounters with ex-boyfriends as she tries to work out what went wrong in her previous relationships. She must track down her ten most serious boyfriends and figure out why things didn't work out with them. Armed with that information, she must try to do better if she's ever going to end up walking down the aisle. The book is written in a light-hearted way and is a roughly even split between the present day ...  Read the complete review