Getting Rid of Matthew

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Getting Rid of Matthew

By: Jane Fallon

Narrated by: Zoe Telford

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon, read by Zoe Telford.

What to do if Matthew, your secret lover of the past four years, finally decides to leave his wife Sophie and their two daughters and move into your flat, just when you're thinking that you might not want him anymore . . .

PLAN A: Stop shaving your armpits. And your bikini line. Tell him you have a moustache that you wax every six weeks. Stop having sex with him. Pick holes in the way he dresses. Don't brush your teeth. Or your hair. Or pluck out the stray hag-whisker that grows out of your chin. Buy incontinence pads and leave them lying around.

PLAN B: Accidentally on purpose bump into his wife Sophie. Give yourself a fake name and identity. Befriend Sophie. Actually begin to really like Sophie. Snog Matthew's son (who's the same age as you by the way. You're not a paedophile). Buy a cat and give it a fake name and identity. Befriend Matthew's children. Unsuccessfully. Watch your whole plan go absolutely horribly wrong.

Getting Rid of Matthew is the sharp and hilariously funny novel from Jane Fallon.

Dark Humour

Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Romance

Romantic Comedy

Women's Fiction

Comedy

Funny

Marriage

Cats

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Praise for Jane Fallon

Chick lit with an edge

A brilliant and original tale

Intelligent, edgy and witty

I love Fallon, she's in a category all of her own - her books are great fun and her characters are fabulous, believable women who take no nonsense (Marian Keyes)

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These books are all about the delivery which is really funny. A dry wit in the writing that's unlike anything else I've read. The situations may seem cliche but they are simply setting the foundations for the funny dry humour of the writing. I enjoyed this. A plot as predictable and maybe even shallow as a pond and yet humour and observations as deep as a canyon. That's what I like most about it. The mix of both things. It's brilliant. I'll feast again on another story by this writer.