#unsticky

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I feel like life happens to other people, and I drift in and out of their lives without ever making any kind of impact. I want to matter to someone.

– Unsticky, by Sarra Manning (2009)

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Happy tenth anniversary to one of my favourite novels of all time!!!

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7 Book Covers in 7 Days Challenge | Day Seven

Rules: Each day, post the cover of a book that you love and nominate someone new to join the challenge. No explanation, no discussion, just post the cover and by doing so spread some literary love!

Big thank you to every one who nominated me, including the lovely @mariaslozak​ with Wildfire At Midnight by Mary Stewart, the fabulous @overwhelmsion​ with The Small House At Allington by Anthony Trollope, and the amazing @bespectacled-phoenix​ with Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn.

Today I’m tagging @angelacolsin (as always though, no pressure, you only need participate if you wish to)

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And was Mr Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte

She looked at Vaughn's clean profile and wondered when she'd stopped thinking of him as only handsome in a certain light.

Unsticky by Sarra Manning

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Just finished reading Unsticky and I just... I love it so muuch????? I was on the brink of tears several times in the last 20%, even though it’s a romantic comedy that hits that sweet spot between chick lit and romance novel. And I really wish it was an ongoing series, coz I just love both Grace and Vaughn so much and want to hear more about their adventures (also if there was a version from Vaughn’s pov I would DIE of happiness).

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This morning The Loop played ‘It Must Have Been Love’ by Roxette and my sister sent me this pic of Liberty’s—the universe KNOWS I’m re-reading Unsticky!!

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Grace didn’t need to be a cartographer to read the signs: being dumped was inevitable. But she’d never expected it to happen on her birthday. In Liberty’s. Right by the new season’s Marc Jacobs bags. 

That was one of the reasons why it was Grace’s happy place. There was something civilised and genteel about the thick wood panelling that hushed the merciless, hurrying world outside. Well, that and the rail upon rail of pretty frocks, the spindly shoes that looked too delicate to walk in and the beauty hall where she wanted her ashes scattered when she died. Except Liam had just gone and trashed her happy place as well as ruining her birthday. 

- Unsticky by Sarra Manning (2009) 

(This is it folks; ground zero where Grace and Vaughn met! I’m finally doing the Unsticky re-read I’ve been threatening to do for the past year, so here are some pictures of the Liberty department store in London from when I visited it last year while on holiday—on the sole basis of this book)

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Is Sarra Manning on Twitter or anything? Because I’d join just to @ her this