It's Valentine's Day and what better day to have the extract tour for Andy Jones' upcoming novel, Girl 99. I have the fourth extract entitled 'Too Many' for you but please do hop over to the other blogs to read further extracts:
Prologue
The One
The Bet
Too Many - here on The Book Magnet
Viagras
Knickers
Book Club
GIRL
99 [an extract]
by
Andy Jones
What would
you think if I told you I was a virgin? Unusual for a man of my age,
no? You’d probably want to know why. Was something wrong? Broken?
Was I religious, or a member of some other weird cult?
What if I
said I’d had only a single sexual encounter? Say we were in the pub
and the subject came up. How
many people have you slept with? We go around the table:
Five, fifteen, seven, twelve,
twenty-seven. You get to me and I say, ‘One.’
‘One!’
You all shout in unison.
The first
guy says, ‘I thought five
was low! What have you been doing?’
Mr Fifteen
pulls a face: ‘Were you in
prison?’
‘Or
a coma?’ says Mr Twenty-Seven.
Everybody
laughs.
So we’ve
established that none is weird, and one is laughable. Two might
elicit a patronising coo. Three would be better, five better still.
What about a thousand? You’d fall off your barstool, appalled.
Somewhere along the way, more went from being better to worse. So
where exactly did this shift occur? At what point does ‘one’ more
become ‘one too many’? Thirty? Forty? Fifty? Okay, let’s say
fifty. Why is fifty worse than forty-nine? What’s so bad about
fifty? Or fifty-one, or fifty-two?
What’s so
bad about eighty-five?
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About the author
Andy Jones lives in London with his wife and two little girls. During the day he works in an advertising agency; at weekends and horribly early in the mornings, he writes fiction.
You can find Andy on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram as andyjonesauthor
