Review: Miss Match...Affairs to Remember

Synopsis

Meet Tansy Breakspear. 

A mid-30s journalist, she works for a free newspaper called Urban Trend -- and writes a popular agony aunt column under the pseudonym of Betty Carpenter. 

Betty Carpenter’s advice to her readers is compassionate, clever and practical. She has a reputation for supplying sympathetic, workable solutions to readers who come to her with a bewildering range of relationship problems. 

But if anyone needs the help of an agony aunt, it’s Tansy herself. 

Her own love life is a major disaster area, and that’s putting it mildly. She’s having unsatisfactory affairs with two married men and has been stalking a third. 

As her relationships start falling apart, it seems that there’s nowhere to go for a single, sexy, self-deluding, Rubenesque redhead with a taste for expensive restaurants, illicit liaisons and Aperol Spritzers. 

But then a chance of happiness comes from an unexpected source, and it looks as though Tansy may find true love after all – with the help of Betty Carpenter. 

Will Tansy meet her perfect match? 

Or can Miss Match only match up other people? 

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Review 

I used to look down on women who sleep with married men until I realised how easy it is to become one of those women. A few days ago I had an interesting conversation with a friend who informed me of how she became her ex-boyfriend’s mistress. It was an interesting story as she found herself in the midst of a messy breakup, new girl friends and hoping she had held on to a past relationship. She described candidly how she had cleaned him up, changed his douche bag ways only for another woman to come and take her well earned prize. The reason she became the mistress was to claim a prize that now belonged to someone else.

Miss Match caught me unaware because it brought to the forefront the topic of married men and women that love them.  I love Nicola Yeager and I knew I would love this however I did not expect to love it as much not did I expect to feel such powerful emotions. Yeager is one of those underrated authors who is brilliant but not celebrated.

Miss Match follows Tansy a married man loving singleton dishing relationship advice to men and women. Miss Match follows her as she moves from one bad relationship to the next not really finding fulfilment or happiness in any of those relationships. The men she dates are egoistical, conceited morons looking a side dish along with their main meals.  Miss Match is well written, full of surprises and funny moments. The ending was annoying as it felt unfinished and abrupt. Apart from that one fault I loved it. Yeager is highly addictive.