What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Romance, office setting, think late 90s but read in 2000s. She is single and pregnant. He is not the father but a moody older untypical grumpy manager hero who takes pity and they form a friendship
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Jan 08, 2023 04:18PM
I believe it was a plot set in Britain. I had only just started reading romance novels so this could have been from earlier but def. read between late 90s up to 2015 ish. The female heroine is kinda down on her luck from what I recall. She is single but got pregnant from her last relationship. The male protagonist is not the father and not the hero type, he's much older and grumpy, or just very aloof. I have a visual that they were in a board room type meeting and he was watching her. Maybe he noticed something but at some point he starts to take pity on her. Eventually they form a trust-based friendship and I think fall in love at the very end.
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@Maddog/@Amber, thanks for commenting. It doesn't seem like it's The Pregnancy Test. I don't believe it was first person told (as I don't like that approach generally), and I don't recall the hero being described as an immediate hunky good looking type.
It may have been a clean story, it certainly had that type of vibe, a classic slow build relationship that you almost don't see coming (my fave type hence, desperate to re-discover).
Thanks again!
Ooh, I agree with you there, I love the slow burn with minimal steam. Is The Pregnancy Test definitely from first person POV? Because I’ve noticed that (very rarely) a blurb will be first-person and the book will be third person, or vice versa. I haven’t read it, just going off of your description.
Either way I’ll be watching this thread, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this trope in a clean book!
