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The three main characters are so different but equally likeable, and I think lots of readers will relate to them in many ways. What’s not to love about a plot where three women form a friendship as they plot their revenge on a conman who tries to scam them out of thousands of pounds! However, slightly disappointed as I would have liked the ‘villain’ to experience a lot more hardship, but revenge definitely wasn’t what this book wanted to focus on. However, the snaking turns of revenge plotting are tempered by her perceptive take on female friendship and loss (she doesn’t think it’s a plot-spoiler to share that her main character Joni mourns the death of her best friend more deeply than the end of her marriage). And while none of her friends have been actually catfished, they’ve certainly encountered the “s**g and dump” users and just random acts of disquieting creepiness.One last question: I know it’s Fallon’s style to assiduously swerve the cliches, and the sugar-coated happy endings in her fiction; so what I’d really like to know is the secret of maintaining a long-term partnership between two equally potent force fields in real life? Photograph: CHANNEL 4 PICTURE PUBLICITY ‘The lion in the boys’ toilet was real’ … from left, Navin Chowdhry, Raquel Cassidy, Andrew Lincoln, Adrian Bower and Nina Sosanya. It’s about the smoke-and-mirrors minefield that can be midlife online dating (Fallon has a nose for distilling the zeitgeist and we are in The Tinder Swindler territory here). Her Sunday Times bestselling books - Getting Rid of Matthew, Got You Back, Foursome, The Ugly Sister, Skeletons, Strictly Between Us, My Sweet Revenge, Faking Friends, Tell Me a Secret, Queen Bee, Worst Idea Ever, Just Got Real and Over Sharing - have sold over a million copies in the UK. Just Got Real is a book I didn't want to end but it had to, and like another book I've read recently, although there is romance in there, it's very much about female empowerment, with or without a partner in tow.

Het idee van dit verhaal is natuurlijk superleuk, maar voor mij kwam er eigenlijk geen enkele verrassing.I’ve read all of the British author’s novels and love her or hate her she certainly makes an impact in the book world with her clever, contemporary, disloyalty fiction and I simply love them. Her eye for detail, compressed emotion and the absurdity that lurks beneath what people say to each other, is unerring. And we had no money clearly, so the visual style of the show was born out of that, because we had to find a way to shoot quickly without moving the camera,” she explains.

I had worked with Andrew on This Life and knew he’d be perfect at bringing a sense of fun to the character. This was followed by a number of awarded series, such as This Life, 20 Things to Do Before You're 30, and Teachers. However, as she politely points out: “We all have a kind of existential side to us… where you think about what if my life was different, what if I was going through this… as a novelist you do that a lot. You wouldn’t catch her with a cigarette, but going to work is much easier on a broomstick than sitting in rush-hour traffic.There were some parts I appreciated, like when Joni forms a connection with the other women that Ant is seeing. She was educated at St Bernard's Convent School in Slough, Berkshire, and University College London, where she studied history, graduating with a bachelor of arts in 1982. Fallon has been in a relationship with comedian Ricky Gervais since 1982; they met while studying at University College London. After such a powerhouse career in TV, I wonder if she is ever tempted to get back in the producing saddle? Such a beautiful tale of friendship and dating from an older angle rather than our contemporary focus on gen z.

And mind the pricks was certainly right when it came to Ant - what a great villain character he is, and I loved his slow unravelling as the women uncovered the truth about him.Once she and Ant are an item, however, it's soon clear that the only thing Ant was honest about was his profile picture. Fallon says a Manhattan transfer has vaguely been on the cards in recent years, but if anything, she suggests they are now more likely to stray further into the English countryside.