Just Got Real: The gripping revenge comedy and Sunday Times bestseller 2023

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Another Fallonesque treat. Full of heart, humour and humanity. She's so good at tapping into the best and the worst in us. Fabulous RUTH JONES The script said: “Susan is just lovely.” I thought: “How can I be that? I’ve been totally miscast.” Susan cares about teaching but she loves smoking and drinking. We couldn’t drink alcohol at that rate and still manage to do all the different takes, so the alcohol was all fake, as were the cigarettes. I’ve never smoked an actual cigarette in my life. I absolutely loved Just Got Real. It's modern, it's relevant, it's funny, and I was completely hooked from start to finish. Whilst the dating story is the primary storyline, it's very much Joni who is the main focus of the story, as she moves on with her life after a divorce, the loss of a friend and her daughter leaving home. She takes comfort in her routine but there's no real joy there. I won't go into what happens along the way but by the end I was full of hope for her in the future. Your writing makes the world a brighter place, [Jane Fallon]. Just Got Real is an absolute joy." - Joanna Cannon

I loved it. The set-up is glorious - a woman who joins a dating app with a fake photo meets a man whose photo is the only real thing about him. A novel about friendship and treachery that contains what must be the killer twist of the year. Totally brilliant' TONY PARSONSHer best yet! Ingenious and entertaining as ever but this book has a lot of WARMTH and HEART'' MARIAN KEYES

Ingenious. Her eye for detail, compressed emotion and the absurdity that lurks beneath what people say to each other, is unerring. One of our very finest comic novelists * Tortoise Media *

Het begint allemaal heel leuk. Joni heeft een datingprofiel, maar ze gebruikt dus de foto's van haar zus. Dan leert ze de knappe Ant kennen. Uiteindelijk leert ze hem kort daarna 'spontaan' in het echt kennen, zonder dat hij weet dat ze al eerder met elkaar op de datingapp hebben gesproken. Witty, funny, beautifully written and dotted with life's truths like sprinkles on a birthday cake' CATHY KELLY It was such a gift to have Teachers as my first TV show. It was fun doing all these ridiculous things, like having my knees painted, trying on moustaches, and pretending to be a girly girl to impress another younger teacher my character fancied, and not being able to walk in heels. They put a real lion in the boys’ toilets. The penguins were super smelly and quite shy. If you’ve got penguins queueing up to act with you, you know you’re doing something right.

I've read - and loved - ALL of Jane Fallon's books, but Just Got Real is her best yet! Especially gorgeous on female friendship' MARIAN KEYES I've read - and loved - ALL of Jane Fallon's books, but Just Got Real is her best yet! The plotting is as ingenious and entertaining as ever but this book has a lot of WARMTH and HEART. It's especially gorgeous on female friendship MARIAN KEYESSo how about when it comes to her own telly watching tastes these days? Are she and Gervais big TV comedy consumers? I’d love to know what makes the pair of them laugh. “Well, I’m not a huge comedy consumer. I tend to watch grizzly,” she says. “I like murders and thrillers and plots and stuff like that. Who makes me laugh? I mean every single season of Curb Your Enthusiasm has been better than the last, so I would say Larry David.” I'm a huge fan of this author's gripping, sharp and brilliantly twisty books, and I'm delighted to report that this latest is just as deliciously readable as the rest . . . A rollercoaster of revenge. I loved it Daily Mail A smart and funny look at the pitfalls of online dating. It provides laugh-out-loud moments . . . I've read all Jane Fallon's books! ADELE PARKS, SUN