Not Another Happy Ending

''Why is it that the saddest endings always seem the truest? In the stories I told myself I was always the heroine - always reaching for my happy ending.''

This is a delightful, cute, deliciously quirky love story. A story of two young people who are complete opposites. An intelligent and talented writer and an obnoxious, fierce publisher.

It is an engaging light read for a bookish person that doesn't really enjoy romance that much. Jane is a wonderful character, her thoughts and motions mirroring her hometown. Tom is the Riviera bon vivant who, despite his joie de vivre lifestyle, means business when it comes to finding and publishing new writers. The story takes place in Glasgow, one of my favourite cities in Europe. A city that is quirky and hip, and incredibly bleak when it wills so. Another element that gives a special ‘‘something'' to the novel is the presence of none other than Jane Austen. Yes, there are numerous references to her, and Elizabeth Bennet, Anne Elliot and Marianne Dashwood have their own cameos.

I am not sure whether this is an original novel or a novelization of the 2013 British film, starring Karen Gillan as Jane, and the dashing Stanley Weber as Tom. The film is brilliant, by the way, as is the book. Watch the one, read the other. Thank me later.