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Mo Fanning
Birmingham born Mo Fanning trained as a teacher, sold advertising, learned how to fix computers and flip burgers before eventually settling in Amsterdam to spend many years honing an extraordinary ability to write enjoyable stories that instantly appeal to wide audiences.
Mo is already something of a legend in the Internet world, writing 'guides for the technically challenged' that have allowed many a Luddite to bluff his or her way through complex issues.
Mo has enjoyed a near stranglehold on the best seller charts at the UK Arts Council run website 'You Write On'.
Mo's debut novel, The Armchair Bride is a sassy classy Bridget Jones for the Facebook generation, dealing with the dangers of letting the past rule the future. People who know about these sorts of things have called it 'laugh out loud funny' and 'refreshingly original'. The magic of Mo's writing lies in a raft of well-rounded, easy to identify with characters and dialogue that crackles off the page.
Lisa Doyle, the Armchair Bride, is careering towards forty as a single woman. Best friend Andy Roberts is also pushing an age that in gay years makes him a social outcast. His hopes of a feted acting career are fading fast.
Lisa's confidence - and Andy's patience - is tested when she learns that her best friend from school is to marry. If that isn't enough, she ends up agreeing to be matron of honour. Fearing she will be judged a failure by people from her past, she updates her online profile at a social networking website, conjuring up a husband in the click of a mouse.
Through a series of twists and turns that include getting legless in a backstreet Irish drinking den, several disastrous dinner dates with her soon-to-be-single boss and a tangle with potty-mouthed drag queen Fonda Cox, Lisa struggles to stop worrying about what others think and face the future.
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