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The Twitter Diaries - Imogen Lloyd Webber and Georgie Thompson (2012)
When Stella Cavill (@StellaCavill) rescues Tuesday Fields (@TuesdayFields) from a major fashion dilemma at the New Year's Eve party of media magnate Peter Mignon (@PM_TV), a new friendship emerges. With Stella based in New York from where she runs her struggling men's designer shoes business and Tuesday based in London where she is trying to make her mark in television, the two connect via Twitter. And over the course of a year the tweets fly back and forth between them as they share their problems and worries, successes and failures, including flings with movie-stars, near-misses with sportsmen, break-ups and new loves. Aside from the prologue and epilogue, this novel is told entirely in tweets, which makes for a fast and fun read. Obviously, the novel lacks the benefits of characterisation, detail and scene-setting that are intrinsic to the usual narrative format, and anyone wanting a descriptive and layered read won't find what they are looking for in this book. However, the novel does not suffer at all from its style, thanks in large to the driving momentum of the communication and the plot. A witty and dynamic read, this is a chick-lit novel for the social network age. (JC)
The Twitter Diaries, by Imogen Lloyd Webber and Georgie Thompson, tells the story of two women separated by an ocean but united over a social network. The synopsis says: "Tuesday (@Tuesday Fields), a sports reporter, and Stella (@StellaCavill), a men's shoe designer, are Brit 30-somethings who are introduced in NYC on NYE by a mutual friend, a notorious transatlantic TV presenter. They strike up an instant bond. Over the next 365 days, @TuesdayFields and @StellaCavill put the world to rights, one tweet at a time. From Melbourne to Monaco to Magaluf, the girls flirt and fall out with sportsmen, movie stars ... and TV presenters. And then there's their mothers ... December 31st of the same year and @TuesdayFields and @StellaCavill meet again, for the first time since the last time. A lot can happen in a year. It turns out just 140 characters can change everything." Lloyd Webber is a political commentator based in New York and daughter of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, while Thompson is a presenter on Sky Sports.