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  • Published: 28 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781742537221
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook

The GoMo Short Story



Jess is having her Golden Moment - she's successful, attractive and confident. When the drop-dead gorgeous Adam walks in to her cafe, it's love at first sight, but her friend Trina has been reading The Rules and warns her to play it cool. Will her ice queen act create the air of mystique and intrigue she's hoping for, or drive him away? In this short story, Maggie Alderson explores the rituals - and pitfalls - of modern dating.

  • Published: 28 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781742537221
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook

About the author

Maggie Alderson

Maggie Alderson was born in London, brought up in Staffordshire and educated at the University of St Andrews. She has worked on nine magazines – editing four of them, including British ELLE – and two newspapers. For many years she covered the international fashion shows.

She has published six bestselling novels and four collections of her columns from Good Weekend magazine. She co-edited two books of short stories in aid of the charity War Child, and In Bed With, a collection of erotic short stories by well-known women writers.

She is married, and has one daughter and twelve pairs of Prada shoes.

'At last we've found her, the female Seinfeld. Warm, witty, wise and well-dressed, Alderson is the haute couture of humour.' – Kathy Lette

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