Kiss Him Goodbye

by Victoria Routledge

Kate Craig has many pet hates but top of the list is London. Dirty, smelly, unfriendly and unreasonably expensive beer. She's steered well clear for 21 years. But then her gorgeous Europhile boyfriend, Giles, invites her down to his palatial Chelsea house before he launches his international banking career: posh dinners out, cosy evenings in. It would be rude to say no. In fact, Kate's week of high-class indulgence is so idyllic that she's almost relieved when it turns horribly wrong. Giles's training course is in Chicago. It's four months long. And he wants her to wait in London for him. In a daze of anger, misery and deep subconscious disbelief, Kate suddenly finds herself cleaning her new cupboard in the first flat she sees. If it were just the filthy cupboards she had to contend with, she'd be OK. But there are flatmates: twins Dante and Cressida Grenfell have had a fairy-tale upbringing. Of the Grimm variety. He's a permanently hungover layabout, she's a control freak style queen. And the light relief is Harry, who gives upper crust blondes a bad name. All this and a bewildering new job, a sudden addiction to espressos, and the District Line - Kate's sixteen Mondays are looking like a lifetime.

Genres: Chick Lit, Fiction

576 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Victoria Routledge worked in publishing for three years before her first novel, Friends Like These, was published.
She was born in the Lake District and now lives in London and writes full time as a novelist and journalist.

Reviews

[Barbara Elsborg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three and half stars. I enjoyed this - though I really wished the balance had been a little better. In other words - without spoiling the story - that the ultimate hero had been given time to show us his better side because it was hard to believe the heroine ended up with him. But I loved all the detail of London and the flat sharing. The characters were well drawn. The story held my attention - just annoyed me a bit at the end. But I'll now look for others by this author!

[Claire · Rating 3 out of 5]

book ok, wd read her other books

[Catsalive · Rating 3 out of 5]

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