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How to Fall In Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush

For readers of quirky Scandinavian fiction comes this charming and witty debut novel by Emmy Abrahamson — perfect for fans of Jonas Jonasson.

Love stinks. Or maybe it just needs a shower ...

Vienna: famous for Mozart, waltzes, and pastry; less famous for Julia, a Swedish transplant who spends her days teaching English to unemployed Austrians and her evenings watching Netflix with her cat or club hopping with a frenemy. An aspiring novelist, Julia’s full of ideas for future bestsellers: A writer moves his family to a deserted hotel in the dead of winter and spirals into madness! A homely governess loves a brooding man whose crazy wife is locked up in the attic! Fine, so they’ve been done. Doesn’t mean Julia won’t find something original.

Then something original finds Julia — sits down next to her on a bench, as a matter of fact. Ben is handsome (under all that beard) and adventurous (leaps from small bridges in a single bound). He’s also sexy as hell and planning to shuffle off to Berlin before things can get too serious. Oh, and Ben lives in a public park.

Thus begins a truth stranger than any fiction Julia might have imagined: a whirlwind relationship with a guy who shares her warped sense of humor and shakes up the just-okay existence she’s been too lazy to change. Ben challenges her to break out; she challenges him to settle down. As weeks turn to months, Julia keeps telling herself that this is a chapter in her life, not the whole book. If she writes the ending, she can’t get hurt.

But what if the ending isn’t hers to write?

 

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 244
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-06-267803-4
  • EAN
  • 9780062678034
  • Genres
  • fiction, romance, contemporary, audiobook, humor, adult, canada, cultural
  • Release date
  • 2018