The No-Show: The utterly heart-warming new novel from the author of The Flatshare

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Si es que ya lo vengo diciendo desde hace tiempo, como una va en modo despiste total, ya me entiendes, en plan cabra loca saltarina, pues enganche tremendo que se lleva sin verlo a venir!🤭 Así, en plan gratis: "Tome su enganche de hoy. Esperamos que lo disfrute mucho🤪". Y si solo fuera eso, pues vale, pero es que esto no se hace, en serio, que una ya está como está para que encima se le junte la erupción volcánica literaria...🥴 Siobhan, a no-nonsense life coach. Miranda, a tough as nails arborist. Jane, an insecure charity shop worker with a traumatic professional history. I expected this to be funny, maybe a little swoony, possibly a little steamy. It was none of those things. I don't mind if a Romance has a more serious tone, but a boring tone is not something I am looking for. O'Leary may not fit neatly into any of the usual categories, but she excels at what she does, which is to blend love and the darker realities of living – experiences like domestic violence and harassment— with humor and narrative experimentation. The No-Show is the culmination of these adventures in storytelling. As powerful and engaging as it is romantic, O'Leary's new novel has the emotional resonance of her debut hit The Flatshare with greater complexity. Content warnings: self-harm, alcoholism, obsession, stalking, sexual harassment, miscarriage, dementia.

Well, you will just have read the latest delightful Friendship/Romance novel by Beth O’Leary to find out… I finished this last night and have mixed feelings about this book. For the record I DNF The Flatshare and thoroughly enjoyed The Switch. I haven’t read her other book. I felt that this book really suffered from poor editing. The characters all felt really flat. Siobhan in particular was just glossed over. Her past relationship was only mentioned twice despite it being a major plot device. The other two female characters were interesting but again, never really fleshed out. Joseph was just a conduit to explore these women’s flaws and growth. It didn’t quite work. Joseph himself was frankly kind of boring. Like the women, I never felt that I knew him or his motivations. But, don’t judge him quite so fast!! There is more to this story than what you may initially think. Then there is Joseph. He seems to be a lying, womanizing, cheating bastard, but there is more to him than meets the eye. He grew on me in the end. An unexpected love story, The No-Show is an utterly extraordinary tear-jearker of a book, a heart-breaking and joyful novel about dating, and waiting, and the ways love can find us.Beth O’Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry, and ache all in the same book, and The No-Show is her most moving yet. O’Leary’s wit, charm, and heart are on full, fantastic display in this cozy, surprising, and deeply satisfying novel. I couldn’t possibly love it more.”—Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meeton Vacation Jane: A quiet wounded soul. She is working at a store as a volunteer. She is not saying where she got the money to rent a place or what happened when she was living in London.

Then I read another Beth O'Leary romance, which had two romances, and I was like damn. I wish this had one romance instead. Not enough time. Dícese de cuando una lectora termina una historia y no puede hablar de esta con nadie. Ya sea porque aún nadie a leído dicha novela o porque si abre la boca hace un spoiler tamaño catedral de Sevilla. Así que se ha de contener con humear) LISTEN! I don't want to see this book nominated as best romance at the end of the year ... this was trying to be women's fiction with a "cute" cover...

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Even as it taps beautifully into emotions and experiences that feel so universal, The No-Show is fresh, surprising and oh-so clever. It made me laugh, brought me to tears, and kept me reading late into the night. It’s the kind of book that leaves an impression on your heart. A truly special read.”—Holly Miller, author of The Sight of You