According to a magazine, Susie is a ‘Leftover’ – a post-Bridget Jones thirty-something who has neither her dream man, job, nor home. She doesn't even own six matching dinner plates.
According to her friend Rebecca, Susie needs to get over her ex, Jake, and start online dating – or at least stop being rude to every guy who tries to chat her up.
But Susie’s got a plan. If she can just make the 307 days til her promotion and bonus, she can finally quit and pursue her dream career in food. Then surely, everything else will fall into place. If only her love life wasn't so complicated…
Susie is a ‘Leftover’, or at least, that’s what a magazine says – someone who doesn't have their dream job, home, or man in their life. Susie works in advertising, but she wants more from her career – in an ideal world she’d love to quit and follow her dream career in food. All she has to do is last 307 days until her promotion and then she can quit and start on her dream – simple, right? But Susie has another problem, even though she and her ex-boyfriend Jake broke up a while ago, she still isn't over him…
This is the first book that I have read by Stella Newman and it will definitely not be the last! I loved everything about the book as soon as I had read the first page, it was a change from the normal sort of books that I read and although it was chic-lit it isn't the normal sort of book you would expect from this genre and that's what makes it great! Even though this was being read at the same time I was moving house, I still couldn't put it down!
The characters were wonderful! Susie in particular was a fabulous character, I liked her from the first page – she was so believable that she seemed to jump from the pages into real life. Susie was so lifelike and unlike a lot of other books you could believe that there are people out there that are just like her ir relate to her in some way, whether it be her life, her personality or the situations she finds herself in. She seemed so normal but if you think this would make the book dull it did not at all, it meant you could relate to her so much more.
Leftovers had me smiling all the way through. There are also a few serious moments in the book, but even so, it is a book that is easy to slip into and will have you hooked from the first few sentences! I love that due to Susie's love of pasta the book is heavily revolved around this, which may seem like a strange thing to do but Stella Newman only made this book even better by doing this as it stands out from most other books. There are even pasta recipes included at the end! I still haven't attempted any of them but I'm sure I will get round to it at some point!
Leftovers is a brilliant novel that I thoroughly enjoyed and I was very sad to finish it. Leftovers is a very good book if you want a break or even a change from the traditional chic-lit (although I am still in love with the traditional), I would definitely recommend it to anybody.
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