About the Book
My brother’s getting married in a few weeks and asked for help picking a song for his first dance. I suggested Kiss’s ‘Love’s a Slap in the Face’.
It didn’t go down well.
When she was a teenager, Zoë Frixos fell in love with Simon Baxter, her best friend and the boy next door. But his family moved to America before she could tell him how she felt and, like a scratched record, she’s never quite moved on. Now, almost twenty years later, Simon is heading back to London, newly single and as charming as ever . . .
But as obstacles continue to get in her way – Simon’s perfect ex-girlfriend, her brother’s big(ish) fat(ish) Greek wedding, and an obnoxious publicist determined to run Zoë – Zoë begins to wonder whether, after all these years, she and Simon just aren’t meant to be.
What if, despite what all the songs and movies say, you're first love isn't always all it's cracked up to be? What if, instead Zoë and Simon are forever destined to shuffle around their feelings for each other, never quite getting the steps right . . .
With a smart, relatable central character and razor-sharp wit, Love Songs for Sceptics is perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane, Lucy Vine and Lindsey Kelk.
Title: Love Songs For Sceptics
Author: Christina Pishiris
Published By: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 28th November 2019
Links: UK: Amazon
My Love Song for Sceptics
I'm probably not the best person to ask about this because on our wedding day we never really thought about a song for our first dance as most of our favourites were quite upbeat apart from The Smiths which my husband was very much into at the time but I thought were far too miserable for a wedding. Anyway we ended up letting the DJ choose and were very happy to dance along to 'Nothing Compares to You' by Sinead O'Conner. She has a wonderful voice and I quite liked being told that nothing compared to me. It was only a few days later that a friend asked me why I had chosen a break up song for our first dance!! It honestly hadn't even occurred to me to take the song so literally and I had thoroughly enjoyed it, also we've been married thirty years next year so maybe it was our good luck charm.
So I have scoured my brain and the internet for a suitable song for the fabulous book by Christina Pishiris, Love Songs for Sceptics and then I came across the perfect one. ‘I Love to Hate You’ by Erasure, a band that saw me through my teenage years and still has me singing full blast if I ever hear one of their songs. I chose this because it’s so insulting but still sung in a joyful catchy way that you couldn't help but join in.
Love Songs for Sceptics is such a unique concept for a book and I really can't wait to get stuck in to it.
Sincerely
Book Angel x
About the Author
Christina was born in London to Greek Cypriot parents, who used to bribe her to go to family weddings by promising that George Michael might be there. To deal with the inevitable disappointment, she began making up stories on napkins and has been writing ever since.
Her debut novel, Love Songs for Sceptics, a romcom set in the world of music journalism, will be published by Simon & Schuster in November 2019. Come and say hello on Twitter: @ChristinaPi or on Facebook: @ChristinaPishirisAuthor
For more info, visit: www.christinapishiris.com
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