Charlotte Street (45 page)

Shona McAllister, who is 30 and works for a book publisher, was intrigued, and managed to track down Jason’s phone number – thanks to a cheeky note his best mate had secretly hidden in the photo packet!

Jason, a part-time teacher who also writes the And Another Thing … column for style magazine
Man Up,
says: ‘I have always believed in making it happen!’

And of finding love thanks to a camera, he says, ‘I suppose you could say we just clicked!’

The pair recently announced their engagement
.

My biggest thanks must go to Greta for her never-ending support, to mum and dad for theirs, and to Elliot, who makes life such fun.

Thanks so much to Dave Cobbett for advising me so brilliantly on the life of a London teacher.

Thanks to Jake Lingwood for saying I should write a novel and for his invaluable advice throughout. Thanks to Simon Trewin at United Agents for the same, and to Jago Irwin for the fun that comes after. Thanks to Gillian Green for her attention-to-detail and excellent ideas, to Ed Griffiths in advance, and to everyone else at Ebury for all the incredible work they have put into my books over the years. Thanks to the estate of the much-missed Richard McFarlane – aka Hovis Presley – for allowing me to include his lovely poem.

And thanks to you for reading.

Danny Wallace
is a writer, producer, and award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in newspapers and magazines including The
Guardian
, The
Independent,Cosmopolitan, Elle
, and
GQ
. His books include
Join
Me, Awkward Situations for Men, More Awkward Situations for Men, and Yes Man, which was made into a feature film starring Jim Carrey. Wallace has written a weekly column in the UK magazine
ShortList
since 2007 and is the host of Xfm London’s
Breakfast
Show, which won
Loaded
magazine’s 2012 Lafta Award for Funniest Radio Show.
Charlotte Street
, Wallace’s first novel, has been optioned by Working Title Films. Visit dannywallace.com for more information about his books and many other projects, or follow him on Twitter@dannywallace.

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Charlotte Street
Copyright © 2011 Danny Wallace.

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