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That Girl-boy Thing
A tale of celebrity, catastrophe & 'The Rules' - Manhatten Style.
When Wild-Child London Journalist Anna encounters drop-dead gorgeous Mark in the Tribeca Grill restroom, she can hardly believe her luck - and no more can she weeks later, when he seems to have become a permanenet fixture in her life. But there's nothing like a pregnancy scare to rock the boat!
Enter Topsy, Anna's larger-than-life, celebrity feminist mother, with her chat-show philosophy on love. In her view, there is only one answer to Anna's baby dilemma. But what is Mark hiding from Anna, and do the two of them have a future together?
A tale of celebrity, catastrophe & 'The Rules' - Manhatten Style.
'Just when you thought you had seen it all on Sex In The City, Tyne O'Connell wades in with this tale of wild child English columnist on the loose in New York who hitches up with a cautious American lawyer. Mark has thus far managed to resist the siren call of love, but Anna, with her spray on dress and a shoe-box Everest in the bedroom, has got him completely hooked. And then there is a pregnancy scare. Who is going to run first - Mark or Anna?' - Marie Claire
Praise for Tyne O'
'Crucial Reading' - Cosmopolitan
'A spirited page-turner that is high on humor' - Company
'Lightening-fast comic twists' - Elle
'Bridget Jones on speed' - Guardian
When Wild-Child London Journalist Anna encounters drop-dead gorgeous Mark in the Tribeca Grill restroom, she can hardly believe her luck - and no more can she weeks later, when he seems to have become a permanenet fixture in her life. But there's nothing like a pregnancy scare to rock the boat!
Enter Topsy, Anna's larger-than-life, celebrity feminist mother, with her chat-show philosophy on love. In her view, there is only one answer to Anna's baby dilemma. But what is Mark hiding from Anna, and do the two of them have a future together?
A tale of celebrity, catastrophe & 'The Rules' - Manhatten Style.
'Just when you thought you had seen it all on Sex In The City, Tyne O'Connell wades in with this tale of wild child English columnist on the loose in New York who hitches up with a cautious American lawyer. Mark has thus far managed to resist the siren call of love, but Anna, with her spray on dress and a shoe-box Everest in the bedroom, has got him completely hooked. And then there is a pregnancy scare. Who is going to run first - Mark or Anna?' - Marie Claire
Praise for Tyne O'
'Crucial Reading' - Cosmopolitan
'A spirited page-turner that is high on humor' - Company
'Lightening-fast comic twists' - Elle
'Bridget Jones on speed' - Guardian
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First published January 1, 2000
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About the author
Tyne O'Connell
29 books136 followersTyne O’Connell is a bestselling British author. Her 13 novels have been published to great acclaim by Headline UK, Bloomsbury USA & other international publishing houses.
http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/...
"An eccentric is not trying to define themselves, they're born seeking a different way," explains Tyne O'Connell, and if anyone should know, it's her. The Mayfair-based author and socialite seems to have been torn straight from the pages of an Evelyn Waugh novel; with her cut-glass accent, perma-fixed tiara and layers of pearls.
Despite recently being diagnosed with a brain tumor, O'Connell has continued to embrace the extraordinary.”
In 2015 HRH as patron of the historic Eccentrics Club awarded her the title of “Most Eccentric British Thinker” based on her research into the 17th C when Eccentricity became the quintessential aspects of the British character. Her extraordinary life has been featured in TV documentaries & feature-spreads in Vogue UK, Elle & most UK broadsheets. Cassandra Jardine in The Daily Telegraph UK wrote: “The Impossibly glamorous Tyne O’Connell’s real life is every bit as extraordinary as her fiction” ELLE UK.
Critics have described O’Connell as, “Enid Blyton of our time” comparing her bestselling boarding-school series, Pulling Princes to “an up to date Mallory Towers”. The first four books in the series are set in a fictionalised Eton College &St Mary’s Ascot near Windsor Castle and based on her three children’s experiences at boarding school & Oxford as well as her own extraordinary life in Mayfair.
Born into an Irish Catholic family, daughter of a retired spy, her favourite chore as a child was collecting eggs from the hens for sixpence writing & reading. She was told by teachers & family she would be an author from age eight. Her first bestselling book was Sex, Lies & Litigation, pub1996 Headline to rave reviews.
Shes spent all her life in Mayfair where she brought up two husbands & three children. The area is at the heart of her ancestry & many of her books. She writes about all things Mayfair for mayfaireccentrics.com, & elsewhere. Visit her at www.tyneoconnell.com & follow her on Instagram @tyneoconnell
O'Connell was educated by elderly Flemish Sacre-Coeur nuns (born in the 1870-80's) with the expectation that she would marry a diploma or Catholic aristocrat - perfectly equipping her for a world that hadn't existed since the 1930’s. It was an unusual Victorian style upbringing & by 17, she was accomplished in Le Cordon Blue, Croquet, Semaphore, Literature, Latin, Needlepoint, Flower Arrangement, Diamond Valuation, Deportment, Millinery & Embassy Dinner Seating. After school she returned
http://www.tyneoconnell.com
http://www.mayfaireccentrics.com
http://www.dandizette.com
http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/...
"An eccentric is not trying to define themselves, they're born seeking a different way," explains Tyne O'Connell, and if anyone should know, it's her. The Mayfair-based author and socialite seems to have been torn straight from the pages of an Evelyn Waugh novel; with her cut-glass accent, perma-fixed tiara and layers of pearls.
Despite recently being diagnosed with a brain tumor, O'Connell has continued to embrace the extraordinary.”
In 2015 HRH as patron of the historic Eccentrics Club awarded her the title of “Most Eccentric British Thinker” based on her research into the 17th C when Eccentricity became the quintessential aspects of the British character. Her extraordinary life has been featured in TV documentaries & feature-spreads in Vogue UK, Elle & most UK broadsheets. Cassandra Jardine in The Daily Telegraph UK wrote: “The Impossibly glamorous Tyne O’Connell’s real life is every bit as extraordinary as her fiction” ELLE UK.
Critics have described O’Connell as, “Enid Blyton of our time” comparing her bestselling boarding-school series, Pulling Princes to “an up to date Mallory Towers”. The first four books in the series are set in a fictionalised Eton College &St Mary’s Ascot near Windsor Castle and based on her three children’s experiences at boarding school & Oxford as well as her own extraordinary life in Mayfair.
Born into an Irish Catholic family, daughter of a retired spy, her favourite chore as a child was collecting eggs from the hens for sixpence writing & reading. She was told by teachers & family she would be an author from age eight. Her first bestselling book was Sex, Lies & Litigation, pub1996 Headline to rave reviews.
Shes spent all her life in Mayfair where she brought up two husbands & three children. The area is at the heart of her ancestry & many of her books. She writes about all things Mayfair for mayfaireccentrics.com, & elsewhere. Visit her at www.tyneoconnell.com & follow her on Instagram @tyneoconnell
O'Connell was educated by elderly Flemish Sacre-Coeur nuns (born in the 1870-80's) with the expectation that she would marry a diploma or Catholic aristocrat - perfectly equipping her for a world that hadn't existed since the 1930’s. It was an unusual Victorian style upbringing & by 17, she was accomplished in Le Cordon Blue, Croquet, Semaphore, Literature, Latin, Needlepoint, Flower Arrangement, Diamond Valuation, Deportment, Millinery & Embassy Dinner Seating. After school she returned
http://www.tyneoconnell.com
http://www.mayfaireccentrics.com
http://www.dandizette.com
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March 20, 2021
Frankly I think I deserve a medal for finishing this book. 372 pages and NOTHING HAPPENED. This book was badly written and boring, the characters were unlikable and mostly unbelievable in nature. Truly disappointing and I'm running off to (hopefully) read something better.
July 3, 2014
The race is on for every girl to achieve the perfect body, the perfect career, the perfect boyfriend and ultimately all being well a husband and baby. The trouble is we are all racing against our biological clock. No one wants to hit their 40th Birthday and realise - Whoops! How exactly did that happen?
When wild-child London journalist Anna encounters drop-dead gorgeous Mark in the Tribeca Grill restroom sparks explode. He thinks he’s found a strong, wild, independent perfect woman, while Anna thinks she’s found a God Boy/Man. But while Anna’s still wondering whether Mark’s just for fun or for keeps…or just whether he’s just too good to be true, she’s hit a pregnancy scare.
What happens next is Anna's hit with the full force of her overpowering interfering eccentric celebrity-chat show host mother (think Joan Rivers meets Ad Fab) obsessed with women achieving it all and a tangle of missteps, misunderstandings, dilemmas and desires. Suddenly Anna finds herself in the centre of a perfect Eggs-on-Ice storm/story.
How would you live your life if you could stop your biological clock? If you know that anytime you could turn back time by freezing your eggs. Or can you? Anna takes us on a bumpy, hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always rewarding journey of discovery into what it means to be a twenty something girl without children in the Big Apple.
One in five American women between the ages of forty and forty-four is childless. With half of those women saying they wish they could have children, Anna offers a message of fertility hope that even twentysomethings who want to prolong their dating years do not need to fret.
That Girl-Boy Thing is Tyne O’Connell romantic comedy at full throttle - full of humour and emotional honesty, compassion and ultimately redemption.
'Just when you thought you had seen it all on Sex In The City, Tyne O'Connell wades in with this tale of wild child English columnist on the loose in New York who hitches up with a cautious American lawyer. Mark has thus far managed to resist the siren call of love, but Anna, with her spray on dress and a shoe-box Everest in the bedroom, has got him completely hooked. And then there is a pregnancy scare. Who is going to run first - Mark or Anna?' - Marie Claire
Praise for Tyne O'Connell:
'Crucial Reading' - Cosmopolitan
'A spirited page-turner that is high on humor' - Company
'Lightening-fast comic twists' - Elle
'Bridget Jones on speed' - Guardian
When wild-child London journalist Anna encounters drop-dead gorgeous Mark in the Tribeca Grill restroom sparks explode. He thinks he’s found a strong, wild, independent perfect woman, while Anna thinks she’s found a God Boy/Man. But while Anna’s still wondering whether Mark’s just for fun or for keeps…or just whether he’s just too good to be true, she’s hit a pregnancy scare.
What happens next is Anna's hit with the full force of her overpowering interfering eccentric celebrity-chat show host mother (think Joan Rivers meets Ad Fab) obsessed with women achieving it all and a tangle of missteps, misunderstandings, dilemmas and desires. Suddenly Anna finds herself in the centre of a perfect Eggs-on-Ice storm/story.
How would you live your life if you could stop your biological clock? If you know that anytime you could turn back time by freezing your eggs. Or can you? Anna takes us on a bumpy, hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always rewarding journey of discovery into what it means to be a twenty something girl without children in the Big Apple.
One in five American women between the ages of forty and forty-four is childless. With half of those women saying they wish they could have children, Anna offers a message of fertility hope that even twentysomethings who want to prolong their dating years do not need to fret.
That Girl-Boy Thing is Tyne O’Connell romantic comedy at full throttle - full of humour and emotional honesty, compassion and ultimately redemption.
'Just when you thought you had seen it all on Sex In The City, Tyne O'Connell wades in with this tale of wild child English columnist on the loose in New York who hitches up with a cautious American lawyer. Mark has thus far managed to resist the siren call of love, but Anna, with her spray on dress and a shoe-box Everest in the bedroom, has got him completely hooked. And then there is a pregnancy scare. Who is going to run first - Mark or Anna?' - Marie Claire
Praise for Tyne O'Connell:
'Crucial Reading' - Cosmopolitan
'A spirited page-turner that is high on humor' - Company
'Lightening-fast comic twists' - Elle
'Bridget Jones on speed' - Guardian
October 26, 2011
It was a slightly unusual read. It wasn't predictable, but it was highly entertaining and suspenseful. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Anna and Mark are quite likable and the story is not entirely unique, but more than enough to seem different.
May 10, 2013
A couple of laugh-out loud moments, to its credit.
August 8, 2013
It was an alright book, a typical kind of girly book but the character 'Anna' got really annoying at times.
December 8, 2014
It's a girl-boy thing, you wouldn't understand. I personally cannot relate to this story.
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