Excerpt from The Impossible Us by Sarah Lotz, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Matt 36 was only five minutes late, arriving as I was midway through my second "chocalottini." On first impression, he was a definite Maybe: a faint trace of a Geordie accent; resembled his profile pics to a surprising degree; ordered a JD on the rocks, so wasn't a health freak. It went downhill from there. After a polite laugh when I joked about the grimacing elephant head stuck above the bar, he launched into a monologue about the drop in London's property prices, and kept ricocheting back to the subject. Rationalizing that the babble was a sign that he was as nervous as I was didn't help--that meant two-thirds of his bio was bullshit.

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