And then, apropos of apparently nothing, two women at the next table launched into a fist fight.”Īnd there’s the pleasure of peeking in on New York’s skyscraper-high society: glamorous charity balls, exclusive luncheons, and a gleaming house buzzing with cleaners, florists, pet behaviorists, etc. I was in the only place in the world I could possibly be. “I was fully present, my senses alive, my whole being open to receive the new experiences around me. There’s joy in watching Louisa flounce around, giddy, as she pictures herself in a Nora Ephron movie, complete with unexpected moments. She says, “I looked up through gritty eyes and there it was across the Brooklyn Bridge - Manhattan - shining like a million jagged shards of light awe-inspiring, glossy, impossibly condensed and beautiful, a sight that was so familiar from television and films that I couldn’t quite accept I was seeing it for real.” The initial energy of the story is compelling and readers are sure to fall for Louisa’s shining vision of New York, covered with a fine Champagne mist. Louisa has left her too-perfect paramedic boyfriend Sam on the other side of the ocean and is ready to say yes to everything. Her friend Nathan (whom loyal readers will recognize from Moyes’ previous two novels) has found her a job as a “social secretary” to the wealthy Gopniks, Leonard and his new wife, Agnes, who live in a duplex overlooking Central Park: “just your average dysfunctional multimillionaire family.” This time, the 28-year-old arrives in New York City, ready for anything.

Louisa Clark, literary cousin to Bridget Jones, returns in Jojo Moyes’ “Still Me,” a romance that wraps up like a sparkling bow.

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