Jasmine Patel has spent three years perfecting the art of being a fashion person. She knows which shows to be seen at, which designers to name-drop, and how to look as though she has never, not once, given a moment's thought to anything as unglamorous as football. The BBC Sport app, buried in a folder on her phone labelled "Utilities", is nobody's business but her own.
Tommy O'Brien is the Tribune's sports sub-editor, a man who has successfully avoided commitment in all its forms for thirty-one years, and who is now facing his greatest challenge yet. His mother has started forwarding him dating profiles. The latest candidate is Siobhan from the church choir, who makes a lovely Victoria sponge and would like seven children.
When Jasmine needs a presentable plus-one for Fashion Week, and Tommy needs a convincing girlfriend to get his mother off his back, the solution seems obvious. Practical, even. A simple arrangement between two colleagues who are nothing alike and feel absolutely nothing for each other.
It is, of course, a complete disaster.
Not immediately. For a while, it works rather beautifully. Tommy turns out to be surprisingly good at air-kissing, and Jasmine finally has someone to talk to about the Premier League without blowing her carefully constructed cover. But somewhere between the candlelit dinners that are fake and the conversations that somehow are not, somewhere between the person Tommy thinks Jasmine is and the person she actually turns out to be, the whole sensible arrangement starts to feel dangerously like something else entirely.
Style Section is a warm, funny, completely irresistible fake-dating romance about two people who have absolutely nothing in common, except, as it turns out, everything that matters.
For readers who love Beth O'Leary and Emily Henry.
Genre: Romance
Tommy O'Brien is the Tribune's sports sub-editor, a man who has successfully avoided commitment in all its forms for thirty-one years, and who is now facing his greatest challenge yet. His mother has started forwarding him dating profiles. The latest candidate is Siobhan from the church choir, who makes a lovely Victoria sponge and would like seven children.
When Jasmine needs a presentable plus-one for Fashion Week, and Tommy needs a convincing girlfriend to get his mother off his back, the solution seems obvious. Practical, even. A simple arrangement between two colleagues who are nothing alike and feel absolutely nothing for each other.
It is, of course, a complete disaster.
Not immediately. For a while, it works rather beautifully. Tommy turns out to be surprisingly good at air-kissing, and Jasmine finally has someone to talk to about the Premier League without blowing her carefully constructed cover. But somewhere between the candlelit dinners that are fake and the conversations that somehow are not, somewhere between the person Tommy thinks Jasmine is and the person she actually turns out to be, the whole sensible arrangement starts to feel dangerously like something else entirely.
Style Section is a warm, funny, completely irresistible fake-dating romance about two people who have absolutely nothing in common, except, as it turns out, everything that matters.
For readers who love Beth O'Leary and Emily Henry.
Genre: Romance