• Shop
My Account
  • Register
  • Login
Header Logo
You are here: Products Thirty Something (Nothing’s how we dreamed it would be) by Filipa Fonseca Silva
Cover image of the book
Cover image of the book

Thirty Something (Nothing’s how we dreamed it would be) by Filipa Fonseca Silva

Joana is a conservative, controlling woman who expected much more from marriage; Maria is trying to get back on her feet after being dumped just before her wedding; Filipe hides his broken heart in failed relationships. Is this as good as it gets when you’re thirty something? That’s what these three friends from college times will find out during a dysfunctional dinner party. Because life is not always how we dreamed it would be.

SKU: B008WNPXZE Category: Contemporary Tags: adulthood, chick-lit, contemporary fiction, contemporary romance
  • Description
  • Reviews (0)

Description

Find more from this author on:

Buy this book on Amazon
Amazon
Author's Website
Author Site
Find this book on Goodreads
GoodReads
Find this author on Facebook
Facebook


About the author:

Thirty Something (Nothing’s How We Dreamed It Would Be) is her first novel and the original version published in Portugal, has been widely praised.

What inspired you to write your book?

In my book I show how a group of friends, that are so different and have taken diverse paths in life, come together over dinner and how each one reflects on how different their lives are now.

Here is a short sample from the book:

My earliest memory is of a Christmas tree. I know now it was a Christmas tree, that is: but all I saw at the time was this thing full of colours and shapes, bathed in a yellowish light. I think I was sitting in a pushchair, strapped in. And although I can remember exactly what I wanted to say (‘Look, mummy, how lovely’), I couldn’t speak yet. It was the same feeling as being in a dream and wanting to shout and not being able to. All I could manage, therefore, was a few unintelligible noises. That was the day I learned what it means to be misunderstood.
All the rest ended up being more of the same. My drawings at nursery school of a homeless man sleeping in the garden that the teachers insisted was the Baby Jesus in his manger; or the times I’d carry Patrícia’s satchel for three full blocks, not because I liked her but just to see her Mother, who was waiting for her at the entrance to the building and plumped my cheeks with her smooth hands with their red fingernails and vanilla scent.
Poor Patrícia… In eighth grade, after five years of a kind of Platonic love affair that had lasted through our childhood and puberty, she said ‘All right, you can kiss me, but no tongues’ and I rejected her. Obviously I didn’t tell her why I’d rejected her: I had to make up a story about having a sore throat and maybe she’d catch it and then I ran off home, to masturbate thinking about Mother. In the following weeks I played football every day after classes, and when winter started and there were no more games I began to go out with Rita, a girl who was far from pretty but had well developed breasts for a thirteen-year-old. Patrícia was heartbroken. Now I could no longer see Mother and was stuck with an ugly girlfriend who gave kisses with her stiff, rasping tongue that lasted five painful minutes. Worse still, when I wanted to end it for the good of my neck she let me move up to level two – feel her tits, in other words. This made me keep the romance going for another few months and learned what it was like to have a permanently numb neck. I should have understood there and then that 1) no matter how small they are, lies only lead to trouble and 2) my future with women was hardly going to be brilliant.
Now I’d destroyed my reputation with the girls at school, I had to take refuge in grunge music and literature to survive my adolescence. Naturally I went to parties, and pretended to enjoy myself as we smoked in matinées or played footsie under tables. I had friends, and I even considered myself to be fairly outgoing, but it was in my room that I felt best. I read, wrote, composed dumb melodies on my guitar and fantasised about Liv Tyler in the Aerosmith video, or Vanessa Paradis, or – in a filthier way – Pamela Anderson. While the other kids smoked hashish and drank shots of absinthe in their pursuit of ‘different experiences’, I preferred to question the version of reality they presented us with every day in the classroom. Political systems riven by corruption, Catholicism’s subjugation of the intellect, the economic interests that lay behind wars. Unfortunately I didn’t have many people to discuss these questions with. Some teachers actually liked the issues I’d raise, but most just wanted to get things out of the way without bothering to question them. Which is what nearly everyone I know still does.
The only important thing that happened in my adolescence was Bé. I met her on a night in August, during a meteor shower. I was in my family’s holiday villa with my grandparents and cousins, who were younger than me. I decided to go and sleep on the beach to get a good view of the meteor shower far from the lights of town. I grabbed my sleeping bag, took enough food for three days, a torch, my notebook and my Walkman. I was lying on my back listening to “Polly” when Bé appeared above me and said something I couldn’t make out. She could have been shouting for all I cared: at that moment the world had stopped for me and all I saw was her pink lips, moving slowly.

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “Thirty Something (Nothing’s how we dreamed it would be) by Filipa Fonseca Silva” Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Related products

Prev Next
  • Cover image of the book

    Bad Boys of BDSM Box Set by Anita Lawless, C.J. Sneere, Roxxy Meyer, Leigh Foxlee

    0 out of 5

    SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! LIMITED TIME ONLY!

    From Amazon & All Romance bestsellers the Wild & Lawless Writers!

    Go on a wild ride with these decadent bad boys of BDSM.

    Get tangled up with alpha billionaires and werewolves. Let a bad boy claim your heart. Fall in love with a rugged mercenary, and follow one young dominatrix as she tries to tame two rough bikers.

    This box set includes six novellas plus bonus stories and an exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming Midnight Wolves MC Saga.

    Stories so dirty and hot, your ereader may not survive!

    This box set includes:

    Bad Boy Werewolf (MF; HEA)

    Bonus Story: Waking Up Werewolf Part 1 (MM)

    Claimed by the Bad Boy (MF/MFM/MFF; HEA)

    Bonus Story: Jack & James (MMMMMMM)

    Bad Boy Biker (MM/MMM; HFN)

    Bonus Story: Barista Boys (MM)

    Bad Boy Alphas (MMM; HEA)

    Bonus Story: Lust Times Two (MMF)

    Her Bad Boy Protector (MF; HEA)

    Bonus Story: Stripped Down (FF)

    Taming Two Bad Boys (MFM; HEA)

    Bonus Story: Surrender To His Proposal (MMF)

    Bonus Excerpt: Midnight Wolves Part 1

    Bonus Excerpts

    All stories have an extreme heat level.

    Read More
    Quick View
  • Cover image of the book

    The Bad Girls’ Club by Kathryn O’Halloran

    0 out of 5

    The Bad Girls’ Club: it’s about sex, it’s about dares, but most of all, it’s about friendship!

    Imogen, Juliette and Beth have had a gutful of the manipulative Poppy so, when they are seated together at her wedding, their resentment not only unites them but pushes them into a risqué prank

    Their problems go much deeper though. Imogen has major body issues and a lousy track record with men, Juliette is stuck in a dead-end relationship with her dead beat boyfriend and Beth is so busy trying to impress everyone else, she’s got no idea what she really wants.

    It’s time to take drastic action. It’s time to rebel. It’s time to become Bad Girls.

    They band together to form the Bad Girls Club and, through a series of brazen dares, push the limits of their sexuality.

    But are the girls ready to finally take the final leap that will have them branded as bad girls for real? To save the club, and each other, they each have to publicly acknowledge their darkest secrets.

    Join the bad girls in this steamy yet snort-laughingly funny chick lit adventure.

    Read More
    Quick View
  • Cover image of the book

    Fame Games- The Escape by Ali Stetson

    0 out of 5

    Lahnna Kris is a world famous pop star but with her 30th birthday fast approaching and, as she stands on the brink of a year off, it’s time for her to re-think her life plan. Back home in England, surrounded by her family, she begins to re-acquaint herself with old friends and their ‘real life’ problems and realises that she too needs to start laying down some roots. The problem that Lahnna faces is, ‘how do you quit a job, when you are your job’?

    Having seen many celebrities attempt the retreat from fame only to end up drawing more attention to themselves, Lahnna concocts a plan that will not only see her stepping out of the spotlight but see Stacey, her body double, stepping firmly into it.

    Read More
    Quick View
  • Cover image of the book

    A Pretty Mess: An Astonvale novel # 1 by Carla Caruso

    0 out of 5

    Sometimes, to come clean, you’ve got to get your hands dirty …

    Celeste Pretty, a self-confessed neat freak, has found the job she was born to do: a professional organiser, de-cluttering people’s homes and workplaces. Her new business gets off to a cracking start when she lands her first client, health and fitness guru Natalia Samphire, in the well-heeled suburb of Astonvale. But things get messy at Natalia’s mansion when Celeste finds a blackmail note and other mysterious items. And then there’s Lenny Muscat, the sexy builder renovating the place, whose constant presence is muddling Celeste’s usually organised brain.

    When things get decidedly suspicious at the mansion, she and Lenny have to team up to investigate. But will Celeste emerge with her heart and professional reputation unscathed?

    This is the first in the Astonvale rom-com mystery series.

    Read More
    Quick View
  • Cover image of the book

    Secrets of a Spiritual Guru by Tamara Lee Dorris

    0 out of 5

    Meet Melissa Murphy: wine-drinking real estate agent who finds herself “accidentally” assuming the role of a spiritual blogger when her boyfriend leaves her for his yoga teacher. Can she keep her role secret while trying to win her man back? If the lying doesn’t kill her, the poses might!

    I literally could not put this book down.

    ” I was laughing/crying (I made up a new word for it: craughing) with every turn of the page. Secrets of a Spiritual Guru is warm, funny and wise, and if you don’t snort wine out of your nose or see little bits of yourself in it, you need to get out and have more fun.” Jenna McCarthy

    Read More
    Quick View
  • Cover image of the book

    Fly, Pray, Love by Kerry Taylor

    0 out of 5

    Kerry Taylor’s “Fly, Pray, Love” is an honest story about a single woman in her 30’s, trying to find her own special niche. Is she a wildly successful businesswoman? A woman irresistible to men? Or . . . is she . . . Beyonce?

    Josephine (Jose to her family and closest friends) bumps into Robert, who to Josephine, looks like Brad Pitt. Thus begins a seven-year series of misadventures as the two encounter each other, learn something about each other, then float away on the waves of circumstance. But, they never learn each others’ real names until close to the end of their adventures.

    “Fly, Pray, Love” is Taylor’s fictional recounting of her life, told from her viewpoint. By turns, funny and poignant, “Fly” will have you laughing out loud and empathizing with Josie as she tries to find herself, real love and her place in today’s modern world.

    Cross-Atlantic romance, US meets UK which is a laugh-out-romantic comedy with a twist of suspense!

    Read More
    Quick View
  • Cover image of the book

    Sex, Life, & Hannah Winter Season by Dorota Skrzypek

    0 out of 5

    Big slut-hair, ferocious red lips, and thigh-highs, Hannah is set for her steamiest New Year’s Eve seduction ever. But instead, her boyfriend of five and a half years breaks up with her. Forced back into the revolving door of the L.A. dating scene Hannah finds herself agonizing over The Ex, trying to comfort herself in the hot young neighbor’s bed, and falling in love…again?

    The inaugural volume of the Sex, Life, & Hannah chick lit series is a sexy shotgun blast of cocktails, cockteases, and revelations. Surrounded by her slightly insane friends, Hannah treads the infamous waters of heartbreak. From the pros and cons of rebound sex, to navigating manic Ex-induced mood swings, and exploring whether a leather harness and latex can really help you move on, will Hannah ever find The One? Strap in and hang on, this ride is going to hurt.

    Read More
    Quick View
  • Cover image of the book

    Shadow Sanctuary by Inge H. Borg

    0 out of 5

    Attractive and successful, Monika Lenz has had it.

    With the city. With her job. And with men.

    A year alone in a Sierra Nevada mountain cabin should bring the fifty-year-old back on track. There will be beauty, and there will be peace and quiet. But there are also shadows that invade her sanctuary. Foreboding and relentless, they grasp at her and lure her soul deeper into its recesses.

    Will the elusive Jack MacGreedy pull her back from the abyss she has created in her mind, and in her heart?

    Read More
    Quick View

Book Categories

  • Collections & Anthologies
  • Contemporary
  • Erotica
  • Fantasy
  • Gothic
  • Historical Romance
  • Multicultural & Interracial
  • Mystery & Suspense
  • Paranormal
  • Romantic Comedy
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Travel
  • Westerns
  • Romance
  • Author Interviews
banner-01testtesttesttest
banner-01testtesttesttest
banner-01testtesttesttest

Top Rated Products

  • More Than Everything by Delphie Gray
    5.00 out of 5
  • Forever Loyal by Sheppard Brothers
    5.00 out of 5
  • Crashing Into Me by R.L JACKSON
    5.00 out of 5
  • Bad at Love by Emeline Piaget
    5.00 out of 5
  • Captured by Conner Kincaid
    5.00 out of 5

Author Marketing Club

WantonReads.com supports indie authors!

for Authors

  • Submit Your Book
  • Submit an Author Interview
  • Get Featured Placement

for Readers

  • Discover New Books
  • Meet the Authors
  • About WantonReads

Thanks for visiting!

  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
© 2017 - WantonReads.com