Chastened
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Summary
Like most women, Hephzibah wants to find love. But she has just turned thirty and she's single- again. Looking back on her twenties, the years seem a blur of parties and flings. Being footloose and fancy free was supposed to be fun, but somehow it kept ending in tears. Now she wonders- where was the romance?
This is a story about rediscovering romance. Forget the fly-by-night cads and unreturned calls, Hephzibah decides. Bring on old-fasioned flirting and the art of courtship. So, she takes a year off sex to find love.
She sips cocktails in Manhattan with a dark-eyed musician, and encounters unexpected temptation back in London.
Her quest has life-changing consequences when, after all, she discovers romance is still alive and well.
This is a story about rediscovering romance. Forget the fly-by-night cads and unreturned calls, Hephzibah decides. Bring on old-fasioned flirting and the art of courtship. So, she takes a year off sex to find love.
She sips cocktails in Manhattan with a dark-eyed musician, and encounters unexpected temptation back in London.
Her quest has life-changing consequences when, after all, she discovers romance is still alive and well.
Reviews
This memoir of notches not carved is surprisingly readable, displaying a melancholy tenderness and candid self-awareness rarely found in confessional writing ... Chastened feels like a genuine attempt to find a solution to a loveless life, and articulates the thoughts of many single women with a purposeful freshness
Ariane Sherine, Observer
