The Dating Detox: A laugh out loud book for anyone who’s ever had a disastrous date!

The Dating Detox: A laugh out loud book for anyone who’s ever had a disastrous date!
Gemma Burgess

‘A laugh-out-loud funny take on modern dating for lovers of Paige Toon and Adele Parks. Perfect to read while you’re detoxing in January!’ Closer MagazineA supremely unlucky in love, late twenty-something living in London decides to leave the whole sorry business of dating behind – at least for a while.Dating is a dangerous sport. So after her sixth successive failed relationship, romantically-challenged 20-something Sass decides she’s had enough.The Dating Detox is born. No men, no break-ups, no problem.The result? Her life – usually joyfully/traumatically occupied with dates, clothes and vodka – is finally easy. Chastity rocks. No wonder nuns are always singing. Everything falls at her feet. Especially men.Will Sass break the rules? Why does fate keep throwing her in the path of the irritatingly amusing – and gorgeous – Jake? Will she ever roll the dice and play again? Or is a love-free life too good to risk losing?

The Dating Detox

Gemma Burgess

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2009

This ebook edition published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2017

Copyright © Gemma Burgess 2009

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Ebook Edition © 2017 ISBN: 9780007332823

Version: 2016-10-31

Dedication (#ulink_6e32db70-b5dc-5a1b-847b-b3f73bde2303)

For Anika and Paul

Contents

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Title Page (#u88f5dba0-ad6a-57b5-a671-8c1b6c8a4ac0)

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Dedication

Prologue (#u9aa7f49b-242f-51bf-99d4-743fcd1db441)

Chapter One (#uf09def0e-9617-54d2-855f-ff25f71e8c21)

Chapter Two (#u149a02d8-0693-5ea6-a678-57d9991a9c78)

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Chapter Nine (#ub7f96183-67b0-5d15-8052-fe07cd8dfab4)

Chapter Ten (#u8f4545ce-0741-5653-9bdf-bbf74ea5b7cb)

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Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

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