Straight Talking: A Novel by Jane Green

Author:Jane Green [Green, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: London (England), Humorous, Contemporary, General, Romance, Triangles (Interpersonal Relations), Dating (Social Customs), Female Friendship, Humorous Fiction, Women Television Producers and Directors, Fiction, Love Stories
Publisher: Broadway
Published: 2003-09-22T23:00:00+00:00

At 11:38 Annalise and David introduce our special celebrity guest. Molly Turner is one of these women who is famous for being famous. No one is exactly sure what she does, except she seems to have made a damn good career from shagging famous men.

Every time one of her new affairs starts they pose happily in Hello! and she announces that this time it’s true love. This time they’re going to get married. The woman must have had ten engagement rings, each of them big fuck-off solitaire sparklers.

Her age is indeterminate, but she’ll admit to being thirty-eight. I suspect she’s more like forty-eight, but she looks damn good. She ought to, the amount of times the surgeon’s attacked her with his knife.

And now she’s on to talk about her latest affair that just went wrong. Richard Beer is one of the world’s wealthiest men, and their engagement party made it into every tabloid—three hundred of their closest friends, most of whom they’d never seen before in their life.

Molly thinks she’s here to plug her latest facial exercise book, but after a minute of talking about the book, David launches in.

“So, Molly,” he says before she’s finished telling us fascinated viewers how much her book is selling for, “our call-in today is When Love Goes Sour. This is presumably something you can relate to. Is it true that it’s all over between you and Richard Beer?”

Molly smiles graciously and runs a perfectly manicured hand through her russet red bob. True professional limelight-hogger that she is, she doesn’t give a hoot if she talks about her personal life instead of plugging her book. Hell, she’s on television, isn’t she, still glamorous, still famous.

“Well, David,” she purrs in her mid-Atlantic accent, although rumor has it she was born in the projects in Birmingham. “I’m in love with love, and every time it comes along I get swept off my feet.”

“How many times have you been engaged now?” says Annie, who quite obviously can’t stand the woman, plus she’s trying to be a journalist. You know she’s a journalist, don’t you? Yes, we all bloody know she’s a journalist.

“Darling, when you’ve been engaged as many times as I have you lose count.”

“So tell us what happened with Richard Beer?” says David, who seems to be losing himself in the green of Molly’s eyes.

“I was really in love with Richard, and Richard was really in love with me. It was perhaps the most passionate affair of my life, but sometimes things don’t work out the way you plan.”

“The papers, although they’re probably wrong,” (David covering himself as usual), “reported that he left you for a young model. How did you feel?”

“Delighted for him. Naturally I was upset when he told me, it was via e-mail as well, and of course I have no idea how to work the computer at home so I didn’t find out for a week, but if he wants to leave me for someone else, some model, that’s his choice, and now I will move on to the next.

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