The Trouble with Rose
‘A fresh and hilarious debut about family in all its brilliant, messy glory… You’ll laugh, you’ll cry’ Sunday Times bestseller Dawn O’Porter ‘Witty and heartfelt’ HEAT A missing sister. A broken heart. A whole lot of trouble… Rilla is getting married. Except she isn't. She's running away – from her confused fiancé Simon, her big mad family, and the memories nipping at her heels. Her sister Rose would know what to do in such times of crisis. But the trouble is, Rose is the crisis. She disappeared years ago, and Rilla's heart went missing too. Where is Rose? And who is Rilla without Rose? If she's to rescue some happiness out of all this chaos, she needs to find out. Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes, The Trouble with Rose is an unforgettable story about finding love, family and all the chaos in between. Everyone is falling for The Trouble with Rose! ‘Witty and heartfelt, you’ll grow to love Rilla as she attempts to make sense of her past’ HEAT ‘Funny, relatable and fresh, Amita Murray’s voice hooked me from the start and she is certainly an author to watch!’ #1 eBook bestselling author Phoebe Morgan ‘Refreshingly different... A fabulous book, with a whole lot of heart. ’ Goodreads reviewer ‘Amita Murray weaves together comedy and emotional suspense into a fantastic book!’ Goodreads reviewer ‘Engaging and entertaining, at time hilarious, always full of emotions... Highly recommended!’ Goodreads reviewer ‘A wonderfully humorous, witty, comic and entertaining story that I found hugely compelling’ Goodreads reviewer
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The Trouble with Rose
Amita Murray
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copyright © Amita Murray 2019
Cover design by Ellie Game © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008291242
Ebook Edition © February 2019 ISBN: 9780008291259
Version: 2019-01-31
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Spot the Difference
Chapter 8: Living a Lie. oh, Sorry, I Mean Living a Life
Chapter 9: An Incoherent Narrative
Chapter 10: Romancing the Chickpea
Chapter 11: The Birth of the Theatre
Chapter 12: The Beating of the Heart
Chapter 13: Dinner for Sixty, Please
Chapter 14: A Cat With Nine Lives
Chapter 16: Walking in Straight Parabolas
Chapter 17: Running but Staying in the Same Place
Chapter 19: Running but Paralysed
Chapter 21: Oh, But I Bet You Didn’t Know That
Chapter 23: A Sticky Kind of Glue
Chapter 25: The Rest of the World
Chapter 28: But How Can I Not?
Chapter 29: But Then, How Can I?
Chapter 30: Clutching at Straws
Chapter 32: On the Last Day of Christmas
Chapter 33: Dialling in My Sleep
Chapter 35: Digging Into the Past
Chapter 36: Sometimes It Fails
Chapter 37: Maybe I Don’t Want to Know
Chapter 38: Not the One I Want
Chapter 40: A Million Reasons to Die
In the natural course of things, by the afternoon of her wedding, a bride is thinking ahead to all the things life will have in store for her. Love, joy, romance, silly little spats with her soul-mate that will be sorted out – hopefully in bed, nibbling on toes – and the endless harmony, the never-ending fun and the countless hours she will spend doing nothing much at all in the arms of the love of her life. She imagines that from now on things will be perfect, she will be happy, and gone forever will be anxiety, irritability, chin hair and a generalized tendency towards narkiness. In short, she will become a better, more grown-up version of herself.
She knows that all of this wonderfulness will start with an enormous slice of cake followed by a steamy night in bed, hopefully in a remote tropical island where none of her extended family will be able to call her, text her, tweet her, or otherwise be able to find her. In the normal course of things, on the afternoon of her wedding, a bride is not behind the bars of the local prison waiting for her lawyer to bail her out or for her extended family to tell her all the things that have gone wrong in her life. I’m not saying that this has never happened in the history of weddings. I’m just saying that it is rare.
Before I tell you about my wedding day, I should make a note here – actually it’s more of a disclaimer – about my enormous extended family (mentioned above). Is this story about them, you ask? Well, no. Are they always there, do they have an opinion about everything, and can’t you just ignore them?
Well. Yes, yes, and no.
I have so many cousins, aunties and uncles that live in London that I have to look at every Indian man or woman passing by just to make sure they aren’t one of them. The thing with my relatives is that they tend to feel insulted pretty easily. You should know this before I go on with my story. They keep score of who gives them regular updates about their life and grovels for advice, who invites them to what, and who sends them a box of champagne truffles for Diwali and not just a regular Indian sweet box with plain laddu in it. They also like to write notes.
