It's Complicated

It's Complicated is a book about the searching for true love. How complicated, exactly, could it be? How difficult? Well, it turns out that for Michelle, a woman with two children and who is in her middle years, it is both complicated and difficult.

Michelle's life has been destroyed when she discovers that the love of her life, her partner is actually a cheating rat.

So, Michele decides that she'd like to dip her toes back into the dating pool.

But now, years after she last dated, the situation is vastly different. And she decides to surf the online dating websites in her searches for companionship and, hopefully, love.

She meets, or communicates, with many different men. There are men who are tedious, who are overly committed to their jobs to the exclusion of everything else in their lives, including love. No wonder they are on a dating site.

There are sports fanatics, the mentally deluded, men who are trying to operate a scam on the hapless women they try to get their claws into on the dating sites.

Michelle was horrified to discover a sub-set of the men on the dating sites who were leading a double life, pretending to be single on the dating sites, whilst pretending to be a loving, dutiful husband to the wife back at home.

And when questioned about their marital status, would come out with the old cliche: "It's complicated."

It's a book that veers from being utterly hilarious to quite moving. Michele Paul has written a very entertaining book that is all the more interesting because it's not fiction, it's actually a memoir!

It's published by The Book Guild at £8.99.