title: The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories About Finding Love
author:  Elise Valmorbida 
description: Valmorbida <i>(Matilde Waltzing) </i>brings her gift for elegant language to this collection of narratives about the search for love. Having interviewed couples from a variety of backgrounds, Valmorbida relates the ups and downs of their eventually fulfilled relationships. Driven by passion for Rosi, a fellow professor, Anneke left her boyfriend in order to forge a union that resulted in the women's 1999 marriage in Holland. The Iran-Iraq War brought exiles Zainab and Mum'am together as lovers and political activists in London, where they have now lived together for 16 years. As Zhen Zhu taught Martin Chinese and he improved her English, their friendship and partnership developed and deepened, but they did not marry until years after they became the parents of twins. Threading through these and other anecdotes is a romance told almost completely in letters between a New Yorker and a Londoner, but their trials and tribulations grow wearying and are less compelling than the other, more straightforward tales. B&amp;w photos. <i>(Aug. 1)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: **The Singles Table**
  
  Tasmina Perry
  
  Copyright © 2021 Tasmina Perry
  
  Kindle Edition
  
  This edition published by Sunflower Press 2021
  
  All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real
  persons, living or dead, or places and organisations is purely coincidental.
  
  ISBN 978-1-911297-27-7
  
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   **A Note From Tasmina**
  
  The Singles Table is a book written in lockdown. I wanted to write a happy
  book, a story of love and hope set in a beautiful location and it grew from
  that acorn of an idea into this novel.
  
  There have been many stories set at weddings and so, so many tales about
  people in love – but what about people who haven’t found love? What about all
  the guests on the Singles Table? At some point w