Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr. Right in All the Wrong Places, A Memoir

Harrison revives the plucky insouciance of love-challenged journalist MTM throwing her hat in the air in the opening credits of the '70's best TV sitcom -- although Bridget's hat would be drenched in the alcohol and tobacco smoke that, with her Rhoda-type gal pals, were her constant companions. Updating MTM, too, Bridget takes us into bedrooms and hotel rooms for her occasional besotted zipless one-nighters, and -- far cry from Mary dating Lou Grant! -- much of her story focuses on Harrison's pining for, bedding, and then splitting with her immediate boss at the Post. Bridget, too, shares MTM's cheerful let-it-all-out approach to life in sharing her romantic frustrations with the world via the NY Post dating column she wrote for two years. In the best breezy tabloid style, the chapters are short and punchy, and left me wanting so much more.

Subtitled "Looking for Mr. Right in all the wrong places," I missed the fact, at first, that this is A MEMOIR -- real-life! -- and that makes all the difference. TABLOID LOVE reads like fiction, and comes dangerously close to oh-so-familiar territory in the first pages, with a thirtysomething, single English girl journaling thoughts on career, love and marriage, with cute abbreviations ("...need to be thinking about babies v.v. soon...") and an obsessive focus on finding The One. Very Bridget Jones. However, TABLOID LOVE is saved from the same old syrupy, chick lit formula by: 1) A really good Prologue; 2) A true-to-life story (not all perfect endings & happily-ever-after); and 3) Harrison, fortunately, quickly moves off the relationship focus and on to her adventures as a tabloid news reporter for The New York Post, on an exchange program from London. Oh, and 4) Harrison is funny, smart -- very much a Rebel -- and one heck of a writer! TABLOID LOVE is readable, and highly enjoyable as a behind-the-scenes glimpse into tabloid journalism and living single in New York -- what an alternate reality! Best-selling author Candace Bushnell sums up TABLOID LOVE on a cover blurb: "A real-life Bridget Jones meets Sex in the City." Candace Bushnell is the author of Sex in the City, as well as a number of other books, including Lipstick Jungle, published in 2005 (good -- not nearly as great!). I would have to go further, having read all of Bushnell's books (and having been a big fan of the HBO series), that TABLOID LOVE is better (gasp!), because it is more gritty, more realistic, more true-to-life -- and knowing that, Harrison's adventures as a London journalist on exchange, working in New York; as a talented writer with her own dating column; and then spending a summer reporting on celebrities and life in the Hamptons; not to mention her clear-headed, stark account of 9/11 in New York -- a Day in The Life as it happened all around her -- TABLOID LOVE is better than fiction! I LOVED this book! Take it with you, and enjoy it as the perfect summer beach read. If you can't get away, go hide in the bathroom for an escape -- remember to lock the door! -- Sherri Caldwell, Co-Author: The Rebel Housewife Rules (Conari Press, 2004) Humor Columnist & Reviewer at [...]

Bridget Harrison is the girl you just want to hang out with.. I admit so many books don't keep my attention but I couldn't wait to get back to this when I put it down, Its a true story of Bridgets move to NY from London and all the changes in her job, love life and the growing up she had to do with humor , class and even her mistakes are things we can all relate too as single women in a big city Its like a real version of sex in the city, without all the over the top glam.. its a real woman, in the real city, trying to live a real life with humor, gusto and wit.. I don't even know her and have come to adore her!! Good luck Bridge.. hope there is a sequel! It really is a great read!

I got so caught up in her hilarious journey from London to New York and all of the mishappenings she has with men along the way. Every woman dating in the city can relate to her mistakes and lack of luck with finding a decent man. This is a positive must read for the single woman searching for Mr. Right in all the wrong places.

Tabloid Love is the memoir of British journalist Bridget Harrison who comes to New York on an exchange program and begins working as a reporter for the infamous New York Post. The subtitle of the memoir is "Looking for Mr. Right in all the wrong places." The humorous stories of all of the frogs she meets on her quest for the prince are outrageous and hysterical. We also get to witness the life of a newspaper reporter in New York City. This is a great story for everyone. Bridget is a likeable and charming woman who greets every new experience in her life with open arms and a huge heart. I can't wait to read more of Ms. Harrison's enticing and enjoyable work. Comparisons to Sex and the City and Bridget Jones are going to be numerous, but Harrison offers us even more! A fantastic book!