The Last Year Of Being Single is the first of the Sarah Giles novels by British travel journalist, broadcaster and author, Sarah Tucker. Sarah Giles has been with Paul for five years. It’s a most unsatisfactory relationship: after an early hiccough, they live apart and don’t have sex. Then she meets (not the actor) John Wayne. Not handsome, but sexually attractive. A fling seems in order, but that also doesn’t go as planned. Then Paul proposes.

This one has an irritatingly indecisive main character whose self-indulgence and rationalising soon becomes quite boring. Her behaviour, ignoring sound advice and, in particular her dishonesty, do not endear her to the reader. She professes to love Paul, but it’s unconvincing: does she even know what love is? She doesn’t act like it.Does she get what she deserves? Will the reader care enough to read the sequel, The Last Year Of Being Married? Written as a series of diary entries, this is a repetitive, self-indulgent and tedious read.