A review by yangyvonne
Dinner for Two, by Mike Gayle
4.0
Dave Harding is a music journalist for a British magazine. He is married to Izzy and they are beginning to think about kids when Izzy gets pregnant - then miscarries. She closes down and then Dave's job is lost and he starts working as a "agony uncle" for a teen magazine. Nicola sees his picture and realizes he is her father and contacts him. Thus begins the dilemma of whether and how to tell Izzy and what it all means for the rest of his life - and he must keep dishing-out advice to teen girls along the way.
It's nice to see a book like this written by a guy and told from a guy's perspective. Although, it seems hard to believe that Nicola could find her father in this way, the whole topic is handled really well - without being too mushy. The sub-plots about friends are really shallow, which makes you wonder why the author bothered with them at all, but the couple has to do something outside their own relationship, I guess.
It's nice to see a book like this written by a guy and told from a guy's perspective. Although, it seems hard to believe that Nicola could find her father in this way, the whole topic is handled really well - without being too mushy. The sub-plots about friends are really shallow, which makes you wonder why the author bothered with them at all, but the couple has to do something outside their own relationship, I guess.