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|summary=Julia and Toby have been friends for years in a purely platonic way. What they have both failed to realise, even though it’s perfectly obvious to all their family and friends, is that they really are in love with each other. It takes Toby’s rejected proposal of marriage to his girlfriend, Ruby, to bring their feelings out into the open. However, before they can really start enjoying life as a couple, events suddenly turn incredibly complicated.

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''Two for Joy'' is Helen Chandler’s first novel and is immensely enjoyable from the very first pages where the reader meets Julia and her best friend Toby who is telling her about how he intends to go down on one knee and propose to his girlfriend, Ruby. Although outwardly delighted, internally Julia experiences some uncomfortable feelings that she doesn’t really recognise and does not want to acknowledge. Come the big night, she is desperately miserable at the thought of Toby’s and Ruby’s romantic evening and can’t bring herself to do anything other than mope around in her pyjamas.