Bad Romance - Emily Hill

'Dark and hilarious ... these stories are as full of wit as they are of warnings' Cosmopolitan'Funny, sad, fiercely feminist and completely brilliant' TatlerTales from the happily never afterAt a wedding, one woman's revenge comes in the shape of her heavily pregnant belly. As a career girl attempts to climb the ladder she slides down into ever more grotesque flatshares. A single woman who always attends parties alone realises that the truth might not always be the best answer. And one Londoner learns her most important lesson since moving to the city - never act friendly towards a stranger.Bad Romance is dark, hilarious and moving by turn as Emily Hill's acid wit gives life to the women whose tales never normally make it into the storybooks.

Emily Hill is a dating columnist at Sunday Times' Style. She has written for the Guardian, Spectator, Evening Standard and Mail on Sunday. She lives in London. This is her first book.

• 'Telling of romance in all shades of bad, from the disappointing to the downright disastrous, this collection of 20 tart tales tracks its heroines as they pick their way across urban backdrops of tarnished dreams. They may start out tear-streaked, but these girls invariably transformed into goddesses with lightning bolts at their fingertips and icy revenge in their hearts. The macabre tidiness of the endings is sure to seduce readers allergic to the frothy ick-fest of Valentine's Day'Mail on Sunday
  


• 'Dark and hilarious ... these stories are as full of wit as they are of warnings' Cosmopolitan
  
  


• 'Dark, sharp and deeply moving' Red, 2018'sMost Hotly Anticipated Reads
  
  


• 'Funny, sad, fiercely feminist and completely brilliant' Tatler
  
  


• 'I plan to buy it for everyone I know who has ever been single and lived to tell the tale' The Pool
  


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  'Each night this week, I've treated myself to one of Emily Hill's sexy, messy short stories with gotcha punchlines from her collection Bad Romance. The sight of the hot pink and leopard print cover on my bedside table makes me grin'i