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Sunday, 11 February 2024

The No Show by Beth O'Leary

At breakfast time on Valentine's Day Joseph Carter has arranged to meet Siobhan in a cafe for breakfast.  She waits but he does not show up.  

At lunchtime on Valentine's Day Joseph has arranged to meet his girlfriend Miranda in a restaurant.  She arrives and waits, and waits.  She sends numerous text messages and receives no reply  After waiting for over an hour she leaves.  

At 6.30 in the evening Joseph has agreed to be a fake date for his friend Jane who has to attend an engagement party.  She has been pretending that she has a boyfriend and Joseph has agreed to go along with her so that she is not alone.  Time ticks on and he does not show.

The following day he contacts each of them to give a bit of an explanation as to why he didn't turn up, but to none of them does he give the whole true story.  

As time does on we learn a bit more about each of the girlfriends and Joseph to understand what is really going on in his life.  

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