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The Ex-Files
Dec 20, 2025 4:14 AM

Author:Jane Moore

The Ex-Files

If you like Jane Fallon, Adele Parks and Candace Bushnell, you will love this upbeat and unmissable rom-com from Sunday Times bestselling author Jane Moore. The only book you need to settle down with...

'A brilliant bridal bun-fight' - Heat

'Cracking good yarn, told with pace and humour' - Sunday Express

'Moore's take on relationships is contemporary and complex...full of blistering one-liners' - Glamour

'A witty, provocative tale about modern relationships' - OK!

'Another gem from the pen of Jane Moore' -- ***** Reader review

'I was utterly engrossed' -- ***** Reader review

'A must read on a holiday, on a sunny beach, or during your lunch break, although it is a guarantee to keep you out of your office for the rest of the day!!' -- ***** Reader review

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TAKE ONE WEDDING. ADD SEVERAL EXES. A RECIPE FOR DISASTER...

Fay Parker is beautiful, successful - and worried she'll never find her perfect match. So when she meets a caring, good-looking man who adores her, she casts aside any niggling doubts and accepts his proposal.

In a bid to be modern and grown-up, the bride and groom invite a potentially explosive mix of ex-boyfriends and girlfriends to the wedding. Fay is determined to enjoy her special day come what may.

But there's one person present who has other ideas ...

Reviews

We laughed out loud at Jane Moore's debut novel Fourplay, and her ear for the ludicrous nature of 21st-century relationships is also employed to great effect in The Ex Files. It's a brilliant bridal bun-fight

—— Heat

A witty, provocative tale about modern relationships

—— OK!

Cracking good yarn, told with pace and humour

—— Sunday Express

Moore's take on relationships is contemporary and complex ... full of blistering one-liners

—— Glamour

The funniest book about a certain type of Englishness...there is a whole line of these comic characters like Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army, or Basil Fawlty

—— Hugh Bonneville , The Times

Hilarious...I'm so fond of the book I named one of my cats Lupin

—— Leslie Phillips

A classic dig at self-importance in suburbia...as fresh and funny today as it was when it first came out in 1892. I defy any reader not to laugh out loud.

—— Sue Macgregor , Daily Mail

Beneath this dramatic storyline, which will resonate with older teen readers, Gayle Forman cleverly explores the fragility and uncertainty of life. She does so in an emotive and thoughtful manner that will persuade even the most cynical reader of the importance of friendship, family and love

—— Waterstone's Books Quarterly

STARRED REVIEW - Intensely moving, the novel will force readers to take stock of their lives and the people and things that make them worth living

—— Publishers Weekly (US)

The author endows the narrative with as much humor as poignancy and lays bare the challenges Mia has encountered in each of her relationships as well as the breakthroughs, leaving readers in suspense until the final bars.

—— www.shelf-awareness.com

Original and exciting, it is a novel about relationships, life, and the people involved in both.The characters are tangibly real; the plot is fascinating and will cause pages to turn rapidly.Teens and adults alike will find themselves falling in love with Forman's stunning novel

—— Isabel Crevasse , VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates - US) - wwww.voya.com

STARRED REVIEW - Forman excels at inserting tiny but powerful details throughout . . . which will draw readers into this masterful text and undoubtedly tug at even the toughest of heartstrings

—— Kirkus (US)

Beneath this dramatic storyline, which will resonate with older teen readers, Gayle Forman cleverly explores the fragility and uncertainty of life. She does so in an emotive and thoughtful manner that will persuade even the most cynical reader of the importance of friendship, family and love.

—— Waterstone's Books Quarterly

STARRED REVIEW - laced with insight, good humor, and wonder

—— Booklist (US)

If I Stay is one of the most touching, beautiful, heart-breaking books I've ever read.
If I Stay is simply stunning ... definitely a book to add to my favorites.

—— Along for the Ride (Book Review Blog) , http://sarasbookjourney.blogspot.com/2010/05/if-i-stay-by-gayle-forman.html

It would be a hard heart indeed that remained unmoved . . . the tender feelings that Noble engenders in her readers are to be cherished

—— Daily Express

Warner navigates the comic, the philosophical and the socially acute like no other writer we have

—— Independent

Played refreshingly uncliched games with the device of the unreliable narrator

—— Jonathan Coe , Daily Telegraph, Christmas round up

Blake Morrison's examination of the dark heart of male rivalry makes foe a gripping read

—— Aminatta Forna , Sunday Telegraph, Christmas round up

Pacy and gripping...wonderfully atmospheric

—— Good Book Guide

Morrison's compelling study of male competitiveness offers a discomforting account of the amoral excuses and self-deception of the compulsive gambler: "I don't have a problem. I could stop tomorrow"; "gambling is the basis of our whole economy". You reckon you could put it down at any point - though you'd be kidding yourself

—— Alfred Hickling , Guardian

The Bank Holiday weekend from hell is the subject of Blake Morrison's entertaining new novel - a dark little tale about middle-class rivalry and midsummer meltdown. With an ear attuned to metropolitan pretension - modern parenting skills are sent up with gusto - Morrison succeeds in weaving a murderous melodrama that is grounded in the most recognizable of human impulses and desires

—— Emma Hagestadt , Independent

A tense chamber piece about a twisted friendship...the author's skilful choreography of unsympathetic characters and a menacing tone make for a sharply intelligent novel that is both unnerving and enjoyable

—— Financial Times

The Last Weekend isn't really a thriller though its well-paced, tight and gripping narrative has you reaching for the same adjectives that you would use to describe one

—— Paul Dunn , The Times

For those holidaying with old friends…the book tells the chilling story ofa rivalrousfriendship…leaving Alex Clark to conclude that Morrison “keeps the reader constantly intrigued

—— Guardian
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