Who can resist lively rom-coms in the vein of Nora Ephron?
An aspiring talent agent sets out to prove to an Oscar-winning
screenwriter that people can fall in love just as they do in the movies.
Debut author Rachel Winters hits all the right notes in Would Like to Meet. Single Londoner Evelyn Summers once dreamed of becoming a
screenwriter. But she has settled into being the "longest-serving
assistant in the industry," working for William Jonathan (Monty)
Montgomery, an eccentric, high-powered, old-school talent agent. Things take a
turn, however, when Monty reassures production duo Sam-and-Max that Evie can
light a fire under screenwriter Ezra Chester and convince him to finish a
script for which he's been contracted. Evie perceives Ezra--an "Academy
Award winner, charitable heartthrob, and industry darling"--to be an
"arrogant, insufferable arse." The stakes are raised when a possible
promotion to agent is dangled before Evie. The problem, however, is that Ezra
believes "Oscar winners... don't write rom-coms."
In order to get Ezra to fulfill his commitment on deadline and
convince him to stop being so "short-sighted about the genre," Evie
agrees to serve as his inspiration and "living proof." She proposes
that she can meet a man the way it happens in rom-coms.
What ensues is a lively, laugh-out-loud story filled with
raucous scenes of Evie's madcap meetings and zany mishaps in fulfilling her end
of the bargain--from road trips to holidays to chance encounters. Everything
that can go wrong does, including Evie making a child vomit, leaving her name
and number in random books around London, and accidentally joining an erotic
book group. Would Like to Meet is a fun and lively millennial rom-com
with a heartfelt message that cleverly plays off tropes from a host of
contemporary romance movies.
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $16.00 Paperback, 9780525542315, 368 pages
Publication Date: December 3, 2019
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