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About the Author

LOOKING FOR ANDREW McCARTHY

Jenny Colgan was born in 1972 in Ayrshire. After Edinburgh University, she worked for six years in the health service, moonlighting as a cartoonist and a stand-up comic. Her first two novels,
Amanda’s Wedding
and
Talking to Addison
were bestsellers, and film and TV rights in all three of her novels have been sold. Jenny now lives in London and is working on her fourth novel and a TV series.

For more information about Jenny Colgan, visit her website at www.jennycolgan.co.uk.

Praise

From the reviews of
Looking for Andrew McCarthy

‘Colgan is on top form with this, her latest outrageous romp.’

Cosmopolitan

‘Jenny Colgan is one of the leaders of the pack … and this, her third novel, will delight her legion of admirers. Fast-paced, funny, poignant and well-observed it reads as a pastiche of the movies she loved … If a time capsule were buried to capture the world at the turn of the 21st century, this would be a candidate for inclusion: her sense of time and place are that authentic.’

Daily Mail

‘Looking for Andrew McCarthy will strike a chord with anyone who did their growing up in the 80s. Wonderful, warm and resonant for anyone who ever wondered what happened to teenage dreams.’

Hello

‘
That’s Life
meets
This Life
, with
Once in a Lifetime
thrown in, all talking heads, witty one-liners and angst-ridden relationships … Did I like this book? Well, d’uh! Do hedgehogs have quills? A pure belter of a novel’

Glasgow Herald

‘Colgan’s enjoyable new bestseller investigates the notion that having it all can sometimes mean having precisely nothing at all’

Marie Claire

‘Colgan’s
Looking for Andrew McCarthy
is sharp, well-observed and hilarious’

New Statesman

Also by the Author

Amanda’s Wedding

Talking to Addison

Copyright

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination, other than the names of actors or actresses who make cameo appearances in the book. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

Harper

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins
Publishers
2001

Jenny Colgan asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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EBook Edition © APRIL 2013 ISBN 9780007390366