single white failure
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There are days that change your life. Leaving someone you love is no exception. Perhaps it is one of the biggest, and hardest, things that you can ever commit to. Committing to someone at the outset is easy, deciding to leave them is harder. Sometimes you just have to do it. My life is about to change, this is the story, prepare yourself.
I''m late home from work. I didn''t need to be, I''m supposed to be at the theatre with my girlfriend Jessica. Right now, I should be getting lost around Covent Garden, looking for the Donmar Warehouse. Jessica should be sinking into an ever deeper mood, moaning about her feet (women in China are protesting against having their feet bound in a similar fashion) and rebuking me for my lack of planning - for forgetting the address. Instead, I''m walking home slowly, taking my time, making sure I''ll be an hour late. Why? Because tonight is the night. I still love her, and it is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. But the relationship has been sour for over a year. I told her I had to work late because I thought it would create one of those arguments that has pitted our lives for the past twelve months. I thought it would be easier to end it if there was a huge scene, lots of name calling and the usual nasty remarks. Bollocks would I be so lucky.
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When a young and successful Max Hunter finds himself at the bitter end of a long-term relationship, he''s eager to find someone new, something better. With everything to offer, finding a potential partner should be simple. Shouldn''t it?
But the more women Max meets, the more his image of the sacred female is shattered by a steady stream of deranged, unsavoury and positively rapacious ladies. Are the men to blame for the decline of woman? Or are these insecure ‘independent’ women past the point of no return? Max must decide on his own terms whether the sexes are simply incapable of loving one another.
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About the Author
GJH Sibson is a writer and journalist, who (before he smelt the coffee) used to practice as a lawyer, allegedly. He is one of the lucky six million people crammed into
He started writing at the age of four, because Mrs Bergall said he had to. Single White Failure is an almost true account of his experiences of dating the chimera that is the ''''modern independent woman''''. Unless, of course, it''''s his mum asking, in which case, not a word of it is true, it''''s pure fiction.
Sibson was so incensed by how men are pigeonholed in life, and in literature, that he set about writing his first novel, a testament to the efforts of the modern man to find the right woman - one who offered more than an eager womb and a series of psycho-sexual hang ups. This is the result - it is Sibson''''s dating dogma for both sexes.
Sibson is working on his next book, and hopes to do a sequel to Single White Failure. He would like to thank all those friends who helped with the material for the book, and is just sorry that they no longer speak to him.