The Matchmaker: An utterly unputdownable and hilarious Irish romantic comedy (Utterly hilarious romantic comedies by Catherine Walsh) by Catherine Walsh

Author:Catherine Walsh [Walsh, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781803149158
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2023-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

There’s a lot of work to do. So much work that I try not to think about it too much. Breaking it down and delegating as best I can. We need to call every hotel and B&B in the area to get what rooms we can. There’s transport to be organized, revised food and drink orders. A clean-up of the village was already underway, but now we had to get Kelly’s organized too. But before any of that, there was one crucial part to get sorted. Because now that we have guests coming to our matchmaking festival, it means we really need a matchmaker.

“I don’t want to just be a tick in the diversity box now,” Granny warns, as I sort the forms into piles. Everyone who bought a ticket filled out the questionnaire online, and while it wasn’t like they’d be tied to their matches all weekend, it was part of the fun of coming. “I’m not going to be the token old person.”

“You’re not the token old person,” I say. “Frank’s the token old person.”

“Frank’s not even that old,” she snaps, and I shrug.

“Adam said you’ve introduced people before, right?”

“I may have,” she sniffs. “It’s well known that I introduced Bridget to Jenny. And Danny’s second wife, of course. I don’t like to make a big deal about it, but I do have a sixth sense for these things. This, however,” she says, eyeing my orderly piles. “Is new.”

“We’re streamlining,” I say. “We have a lot of people to get through, and this will help speed up the process.”

“Well, I’m positively swooning from the romance of it all,” she says, and I give her a look.

“We don’t have time to sit down with everyone. These will help us know what people want.”

“First rule of matchmaking, Katie. No one knows what they want. Not even about themselves. You can have the perfect pairing on paper only to meet them and feel nothing at all.”

“Alright, but see, that’s not going to work here because we only have paper to go by. What else do you suggest?”

“Instinct,” she says. “Feeling. We give people the best opportunity they can have and leave the rest down to chemistry.”

“Okay,” I say slowly, still not feeling overly confident with her “trust the chaos” mentality. I know my questions weren’t exactly popular with Nush and Gemma, but they did help weed out obvious dislikes and lifestyle differences. “Sometimes the questions can work, though. Nush was pretty clear about what she likes in a—”

“Nush has no idea what she likes,” Granny dismisses. “Overly picky people never do until it’s right in front of them.”

“But what about this guy?” I ask, sliding a form her way. “Ryan Harrison. He’s a teacher. He matches all her physical descriptions. He has a hamster. He—”

“Just a hamster?” Granny stares at me. “No grown man should own just a hamster.”

“Well, Ryan does,” I insist. “That means he’s an animal lover. He ticks all her boxes.”

Granny stares at the form for a long moment, and then gently pushes the paper back toward me.

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