Turning Thirty : 0743477650BCENTERFONT SIZE=+1What's the big deal?/FONT/CENTER/BPUnlike a lot of people, Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. His twenties really weren't so great...and now he has his love life, his career, his finances -- even his record collection -- pretty much in order, like any good grown-up should. But when, out of the blue, Elaine announces she can't do this anymore, Matt is left with the prospect of facing the big three-oh alone. Compounding his misery is the fact that he has to move back in with his parents.PCENTERBFONT SIZE=+1What's it all about, Alfie?/FONT/B/CENTERPMum and Dad immediately start driving Matt up the wall, and emails from Elaine and nights out with his old school chum Gershwin aren't enough to snap Matt out of his existential funk. So he decides to track down more old schoolmates and see how they're handling this thirty thing. One by one, he gets in touch with the rest of the magnificent seven -- Pete, Bev, Katrina, Elliot, and Ginny, his former on-off girlfriend -- and soon the old gang is back together. But they're a lot older and a lot has changed and, even if he and Ginny still seem attracted to each other, you can't have an on-off girlfriend when you're thirty. Can you?A warm, funny romantic comedy.P--IDaily Mail/IMike Gayle has carved a whole new literary niche out of the male confessional novel. He's a publishing phenomenon.P--IEvening Standard/I(London)Delightfully observant nostalgia...will strike a chord with both sexes.P--IShe/I(Book of the Month)BCENTERFONT SIZE=+1chapter one/FONT/CENTER/BPHere's the thing: For a long time I, Matt Beckford, had been looking forward to turning thirty. I'd been looking forward to the day when, by the power of thirty, I'd own a wine rack that actually contained wine. Not much of an ambition, you might think, and you'd probably be right, but then again, you're not me. You see, in my world, when a bottle of wine ?Ã
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