Just Got Real: The hilarious and addictive bestselling revenge comedy
By (Author) Jane Fallon
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
12th April 2023
5th January 2023
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
823.92
Paperback
416
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 25mm
293g
The Queen of the Revenge Comedy turns her eye to online dating in her hilarious sharp new novel Joni never thought she would try online dating. She's so nervous that she posts fake photos - but when she starts talking to Ant, who's desperate to meet her, she doesn't dare come clean. Instead, Joni finds a way to meet Ant without revealing her true identity. It's perfect, it works, and she's happy - until a few months in, Joni discovers she wasn't the only one being deceitful- on Ant's phone are intimate messages between him and two other women. Hurt and furious, Joni calls the women. They're angry. They want revenge. But how exactly will they get it
I've read - and loved - ALL of Jane Fallon's books, but Just Got Real is her best yet! The plotting is as ingenious and entertaining as ever but this book has a lot of WARMTH and HEART. It's especially gorgeous on female friendship * MARIAN KEYES *
We drop everything for a Jane Fallon novel and this is one of her best * Closer *
Y'know when you find a book that you cannot wait to get back to, that you sneak time on your own with or cancel arrangements in order to read Well this is one of those books. Had me gripped and spellbound. I kept saying to myself 'Just one more chapter'...and then a chapter later 'Okay, just one more'... I found it impossible to put down. Jane Fallon is SO good at human behaviour and what makes us tick. Fabulous characters and a story that just will not let you go! Loved it. * RUTH JONES *
This escapist gem is loud-snort funny * HEAT *
Jane Fallon's wry observation and razor-sharp wit in this unputdownable page-turner will grab you from the first page and the action races along at breakneck speed. Best of all, this is a tale of female friendship - of three women who have nothing in common except their determination to turn the tables on a deceptive man. * Daily Express *
Funny, fresh and clever...the perfect poolside read * CLARE MACKINTOSH *
Jane just keeps getting better and better. Her books are so smart, funny and warm. I really love her relatable characters, who appear fragile until they become warriors we cheer for * ADELE PARKS *
Witty, smart, topical and full of heart...the sun-lounger smash of the summer * TAMMY COHEN *
Jane Fallon's wry observation and razor-sharp wit in this unputdownable page-turner will grab you from the first page and the action races along at breakneck speed. Best of all, this is a tale of female friendship * Sunday Express *
I whipped through Just Got Real by Jane Fallon in a single sunlounger session and howled with laughter . . . A tautly plotted story of betrayal and revenge, it's threaded with authentic characters and heartwarming friendship -- Clare Macintosh * Good Housekeeping *
Witty, funny, beautifully written and dotted with life's truths like sprinkles on a birthday cake * CATHY KELLY *
Sharply observed, wickedly funny, with real depths of emotion too. Absolutely unputdownable. * MILLY JOHNSON *
Her snappy, clever fiction . . . seems to slip down like a glass of nicely chilled white wine. Just Got Real - her 12th book - makes no exception . . . Fallon has a nose for distilling the zeitgeist and we are in The Tinder Swindler territory here * Sunday Telegraph *
I'm a huge fan of this author's gripping, sharp and brilliantly twisty books, and I'm delighted to report that this latest is just as deliciously readable as the rest . . . A rollercoaster of revenge. I loved it * Daily Mail *
'I loved it.
Jane Fallon's Just Got Real is one of those rare novels that brings both a tear to your eye and a chill to your heart.
The set-up is glorious - a woman who joins a dating app with a fake photo meets a man whose photo is the only real thing about him.
This is the great dating app novel, red in tooth and claw, full of secret lives and lies, the story of what we will do to find love - and how far we will go when that longing is cruelly betrayed.
Just Got Real is a story of four vividly-drawn women and one horribly believable man, a novel about friendship and treachery that contains what must be the killer twist of the year. Totally brilliant.'
Jane Fallon is the multi-award-winning television producer behind shows such as This Life, Teachers and 20 Things to Do Before You're 30. Her Sunday Times bestselling books - Getting Rid of Matthew, Got You Back, Foursome, The Ugly Sister, Skeletons, Strictly Between Us, My Sweet Revenge, Faking Friends, Tell Me a Secret, Queen Bee, Worst Idea Ever and Just Got Real - have sold over a million copies in the UK.