Poully works for Posh magazine, that's how she meets Jasper, an aristocrat. In the meantime, her best friend Lex is getting married, and her mom is sick. Will Jasper be her plus one at the wedding? I liked the book, it was easy to read, even if slightly predictable. The different characters were likeable and the book had a good flow.

Difficult to imagine this is a debut novel. It is funny, fast paced and has all that it takes to be a summer hit. Get out your shades and find a beach somewhere, and you will be sorted. Believable? No. But that makes it all the more entertaining. For escapism, romance and a lot of sex that doesn't take itself too seriously- this is the one for you. Thanks to #NetGalley and the author Sophia Money-Coutts for the chance to read it.

The story was not impressive, it felt like there was something missing and it lacked harmony. I wouldn't recommend the title as I believe it was a simple fairy tale with no big surprises.

I did quite enjoy this book.
Polly is keen to build a relationship and have her own 'Plus one'. Her friends perceive her as an independent woman who doesn't need a man- but this is only their perception.
I found the character a little irritating- she had negative thoughts about the relationships of those around her whilst having an idealised view of what she was looking for in a relationship.
Towards the end, she did change her own views and finally (predictably) ended up in a relationship with one of the others characters.

Holiday page turner, very light and perfect for the beach or poolside.
The central character is a bit of a Bridget Jones, something, journalist, and a bit disastrous on the romantic front (sound rather familiar?) Follow her romantic and career adventures to see where she gets to. . .

This is not great literature, but I don't think it's meant to be - light, frothy and rather silly, but with some funny moments. Worth a read if you like your holiday reading to be truly effortless

Polly is worried that her body clock is ticking away and her life-style isn't leading her to the alter. She doesn't seem to be able to find 'The One' - she thinks she has with Jasper, an aristocrat, but he turns out to be as everyone predicted he would. Could it be that her true love has been under her nose all along? A light-hearted, romantic and funny chic lit read.

A fun book, with some inspiration for my favourite, Jane Austen. Some nice little references to other cultural icons too, very subtle so as not to make you feel stupid if you don’t share the same knowledge-base, which is also fine. For a change, I rather liked the protagonist. She wasn’t the silly, cringe worthy character that often graces the page of this sort of book, or the over-the-top cool party animal. I actually wanted her to find her happiness in whatever form that came. The only down side was that the constant references to Jasper not asking after her sick mum paved the way for his particular character arc and I think that would be better. I’m sick of always knowing which character isn’t going to be Mr Right; let’s share in the heartache!

This was an ok read. It made me laugh in places and upset in others although the end was quite predictable.

Thank you for providing me with a copy of the book to read. Enjoyed the story, even though it did have a bit of s predictable ending. Will look out for more books by the author

The Plus One,  Sophia Money-Coutts

Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews

Genre:  Women's Fiction, Romance

Gah! Once more “women's fiction”, and as usual I have to have a quick moan – why do we do this – cut off potential readers? Who says men won't/don't read romance, they certainly write it, so why exclude them this way?

So, the book. A debut novel and one that's really well written, and I loved the dry humour, and the realness of it.
Loved Polly and her friends, her job at the magazine, very typically British Tatler style ;-) Poor Polly is approaching 30 though and feels that her time is running out, she wants a husband and family, but fears she's destined to be the mothball scented, elderly, maiden aunt...especially now her bestie is getting married and she's Matron of Honour and doesn't have a Plus One.
I loved her relationship with her mum, and her support when her mum gets ill, the fears they both have that anyone who's been ill can understand.

Its a fun read, made me smile in parts, sad in others and very very typically British. As a Brit I love that, we seem to have a slightly different sense of humour and the more subtle approach as here worked so well for me.
Sadly the about turn at the end didn't work for me, I didn't feel it was real, hadn't got a sense of it coming throughout the novel, and TBH really let it down for me. With a different ending, the one that I kind of felt had been building I'd have given this a five, but as it is that change really let the story down IMO. Not the resolution I wanted :-( I felt kind of unsatisfied, and cheated of what I'd expected it to be. Surprises are good, this one was just too much of a shock, IMO, and didn't gel with the rest of the story.

Stars: Three and a half, a terrific book right up to that turnaround at the end!

ARC supplied for review purposes by Netgalley and Publishers

So, we have Polly, who's just turned 30 (and incidentally shares my birthday) and works as a journalist for a magazine called Posh!, a thinly-veiled rendering of Tatler - the kind of place where she works side-by-side with an earl's daughter and interviews marquesses. The marquess in question is Jasper Milton, whom she rapidly falls into a relationship with, despite him being a notorious playboy. On the side we have her mother, who's in stage 2 of breast cancer, her best friend Lex, who's getting married to a man Polly disapproves of, and her other best friend Bill, who's trying to balance an internet start-up with dating the off-putting Willow.

The good: I loved Polly's inner voice. It took me a while to warm up to; she sounded very stilted at first. But somehow, as I persevered, it grew on me. The fact that basically nothing in this novel is going where you'd expect - or at least, not getting there the way you'd expect it to be getting there - is also a massive plus. For a book about a girl whose job entails photographing barons' daughters in bathtubs of avocado, it felt surprisingly realistic. The observations on the British aristocracy were hilarious too. Who doesn't think all those double-barrelled (incredibly, they go up to quadruple-barrelled: say hello to the Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis lot!) are a bit ridiculous?

I thought at first this book would basically be the equivalent of a historical romance in modern London, what with the marquess, but it's very much not a fairytale. In fact, for a book with a marquess, this is as real as it gets. I can't deny I'm a tiny bit disappointed about that, but my biggest gripe is the fact that right at the very end, the book took a very random turn with a certain character - it felt too unexpected, and not completely consistent with his behaviour up to that point. Or hers for that matter.

Still, I loved the premise of the book and most of the execution, and it had a dry humour I've really grown fond of. 3.5 stars.