REAL LIFE
Book ID/图书代码： 03275012B52070
English Summary/英文概要： Does an exciting weekend for you mean scrubbing all the grouting in your bathroom with a toothbrush? Have you ever felt the urge to kidnap the cable guy and tie him to the bed like Kathy Bates in Misery because you are terrified the TV will stop working once he’s gone? Do you ponder marrying the Albanian builder who has just fitted alcove shelving because he’s brought you more happiness in three days than your useless ex-boyfriend brought you in three years? Are you engaged in endless rows with call centre staff called Keeley who hang up on you because you are ’shouting and hysterical’? Are you convinced the entire world is engaged in a conspiracy to drive you insane, especially the automated phone system that generates ten text messages whenever you try to book a minicab? Do you write to-do lists that need paginating, and include items such as ’re-mortgage house, get pregnant, climb Kilimanjaro’? Welcome to Melissa Kite’s life. If you answered yes to three or more of these questions, clearly you too are a desperate single woman trying to survive in the modern world. If not, congratulations: you will have a good laugh reading this book.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在這慾望城市中過日子，並不是光鮮亮麗、夜夜笙歌
蝕骨的孤獨感、一段段心碎的愛情、對自我的質疑、惱人的生活瑣事
Melissa Kite以幽默口吻笑談身為都會單身女性的「真實生活」「我有機會可以與很好的男人步上紅毯，但我卻選擇獨自一人踏上凶險的旅途…」
Melissa Kite準備步入婚姻，舉辦婚禮，但最後還是決定取消，但她的惡夢就此展開…。親友的詢問、對自我的質疑、對無緣未婚夫的罪惡感、婚禮業者鬼打牆一般的強力推銷如浪潮般襲來，讓她頻頻產生「想把頭塞進烤箱裡」的衝動。
好不容易逃離婚禮的夢魘，恢復單身後的生活仍是一場場讓人啼笑皆非的災難。
出於關心，親朋好友們紛紛介紹各式各樣的男人給她。
出於寂寞，她好幾次萌發想嫁給來家裡修理電視的工人的念頭。
出於孤獨，她試圖說服自己，她的GAY朋友會愛上她和她在一起的。
目前，她只有自己可以依靠，必須獨自處理這個世界的各種麻煩事。例如說租車、打開醃漬黃瓜罐的蓋子、拖重物回家、和到府維修的搶錢修水管工人過招等等。
面對讓人抓狂的日常瑣事，對自己的質疑與反思、日漸增強的孤獨感以及增齡的恐懼感、一段段令人心碎的愛情與男人，身為在都市奮鬥的單身女性，Melissa Kite以幽默感笑談這段「一個人的旅程」。(DC & CK & Eva)
Awards/获奖情况：“an endearing modern-day Bridget Jones” - Easy Living Magazine“a cut above the rest of this genre, thanks to her (Melissa’s) caustic wit, making this entertaining and strangely cathartic” - Glamour Magazine
About the Author/作者介绍： Melissa Kite是一位自由記者，為《The Spectator》和《GQ》雜誌撰寫專欄。她曾擔任《周日電訊報》的政治編輯、《泰晤士報》的政治記者以及sketch writer，也曾匿名為《The Spectator》撰寫關於新任英國首相David Cameron發跡史的諷刺專欄《Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody》。Melissa Kite現居倫敦。Melissa Kite is a freelance journalist and columnist for the Spectator and GQ. She has worked as the deputy political editor of the Sunday Telegraph and as a political correspondent for The Times, including a stint as their parliamentary sketch writer. She penned an anonymous satirical column for four years for The Spectator which chronicled the rise of David Cameron: ’Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody’ by Tamzin Lightwater. She lives in London.
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