![]() Not knowing how to find her again, he develops the camera encouraged by his friend Dev and sets about tracking her down. Helping her with her bags, he finds he has a disposable camera in his hand. Then one evening, he bumps into The Girl on Charlotte Street. ![]() He may be doing the job he always wanted to, as a journalist, but he's only doing that on a small free London paper which seems to have no long term future. ![]() Apart from sharing a name with a famous actor which results in comment everywhere he goes, he's also suffering from a nasty break up with an ex-girlfriend who, according to her Facebook status 'is having the time of her life' with her new boyfriend. Jason Priestley's life isn't going quite the way he'd planned. It may have suffered from a twee ending, but it offered enough to suggest that this is a field Danny Wallace could work well in. It seems a decent fit, as his book Yes Man had elements of bloke-lit, despite being based on actual events. With Charlotte Street, his first entirely fictional work, he seems to be moving into territory inhabited by Mike Gayle, that of bloke-lit. ![]() In his early books, Danny Wallace was the new Tony Hawks, taking on silly challenges and recounting them in amusing ways. ![]()
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