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Author: Sophie Gravia
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A Glasgow Kiss follows Zara Smith, a trainee nurse in Glasgow determined to find love before turning thirty. As disastrous dates give way to an unexpected romance, she must decide whether she’s finally found the right man. For readers of funny, spicy contemporary romance with sharp humour and relatable dating mishaps.
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Sophie Gravia’s A Glasgow Kiss is filthy, outrageous and far funnier than I expected. Zara Smith is twenty-nine, almost a qualified nurse and convinced she needs a man before thirty.…
Sophie Gravia’s A Glasgow Kiss is filthy, outrageous and far funnier than I expected. Zara Smith is twenty-nine, almost a qualified nurse and convinced she needs a man before thirty. What follows is a string of dating disasters involving online matches, blind dates, disastrous sex and far too much time checking WhatsApp.
I loved how little dignity Gravia allows Zara. Every shaving panic, hangover, bodily mishap and humiliating decision is shared in horrifying detail, yet beneath the chaos is something painfully recognisable about accepting less than you deserve because being alone feels worse.
Glasgow gives the novel much of its personality, while Zara’s friendship with Ashley and Raj stops it becoming only a parade of terrible men. Crude, graphic and completely unfiltered, this is modern dating at its messiest. It made me laugh, cringe and repeatedly wonder how Zara could possibly make the situation worse. Somehow, she always does.
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In Glasgow, Zara Smith is twenty nine, single, and muddling through life as a trainee nurse. With thirty approaching, she is determined to find love, or at least some kind of distraction, and her best friends Ashley and Raj are ready to cheer her on.
What follows is a run of dating escapades, from online messages and blind dates to hometown hook ups and flirty bartenders. Nothing is quite as simple as Zara hopes, and romance proves less like a clean beginning than a series of awkward, funny, exposing missteps.
Then Dr Tom Adams shows interest. Zara has had a crush on him since her first day at the aesthetics clinic where she works part time, and his attention feels like the shift she has been waiting for. As things heat up between them, she begins to wonder whether this is the real thing, or just another disaster waiting to happen.
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